Vim (To move text-Lines between files) ___ :ab wt w! ~/temp.vi ___ :ab rt r ~/temp.vi

[Hen Hanna]

On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 10:28:41 AM UTC-8, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:17:46 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna wrote: 
> 
> 
> > To move text-Lines between files --- i do this (below).... Maybe 
> > there's a better (or more standard) way, but i've been doing this for 
> > 30+ years, so i'll prob. keep doing it. 
> >
> You can use the buffers. 
> 
> "a yy will add the current line to buffer a. 
> 
> "A 5 yy will add 5 lines to buffer a. Note the use of case. 
> 
> "a p will write the contents of buffer a to the other file. 
> 
> Note that buffer a does not interfere with using a for a bookmark. In 
> other words if you've marked an area with 'm a', "a y'a will put the 
> text from the current position to the bookmark in buffer a. 
> 
> Also note that "* p will insert the contents of the clipboard or copy the 
> text to the clipboard. I use that if I have files open in two different 
> gvim instances.


thank you... that seems to work...    i dont like to split  the screen   (into  Panes) in Vim

               Select the text in visual mode, then press y to "yank" it into the buffer (copy)
                               or d to "delete" it into the buffer (cut).

               Then you can :split <new file name> to split your vim window up, 
                          and press p to paste in the yanked text. Write the file as normal.

               To close the split again, pass the split you want to close :q .



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