If you could have anything in vi ...

[Joseph Boykin]

In article <7214 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, mrd at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
|> In <1991Mar18.195343.665 at cs.widener.edu> brendan at cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
|>    Also, how about preserving the cut
|>    buffer between files?


Vi already does this.  If you yank or delete something, you put it
into a named buffer.  For example, to delete a paragraph do "ad}
then go to another file, and yank buffer a with "ap.

jb