[SATLUG] Re: Question of the Week

[J. Patrick Lanigan]

mattvaldes at satx.rr.com wrote:

>In command mode:
>
>1. At the first line of text to you want to mark, type ma, where a is the letter from a - z that will be the reference to this spot. 
>Move to the last line of text to you want to mark, type mb, where b is the letter from a - z that will be the reference to this spot. 
>
>2. 'a  moves the cursor to the first position of the line marked by the a.
>`a  moves to the position in the line where cursor was when you marked the line. 
>
>3. 'a,'b m  to move the text 
>'a,'b co  to copy the text 
>
>4. ?            
>  
>
4. move to where you want the text and type mc, then ":'a,'b m 'c" to 
move or ":'a,'b co 'c" to copy
or without the c mark you can replace 'c with the line number

--Patrick