Nice vi Trick

Kurt Wall kwall
Sat Jan 7 22:32:48 PST 2006


On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:16:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 40 lines to write:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >If you're using vi/vim/elvis and want to center a line of text, 
> >enter this command:
> >	:<range>center

[...]

> We have had a recurring series of ``Stupid Vi Tricks'' at the
> Seattle Unix Group meetings.  One example may be found here:
> 
> 	http://www.seaslug.org/Meetings/1995/Aug_vi_tricks.html

Nice. I like vi enough that I usually install nvi right after install
a new or updated distribution. After looking at that page, I remember
that I wanted to remember to play with named buffers. Are they related
to vi macros (which I believe are just keyboard macros)?

Kurt
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