Stupid vi tricks

[Chris K. Young]

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 04:30:16PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
! Good for removing tons of quotes from those huge forwards you get from some of
! your lamer friends every now and then:
! 
! s/^.*>//

That also removes any line containing email addresses of the form
<foo at bar.org>.

! I found the "Learning the vi Editor" book from O'Reilly to be very useful. I
! only learned vi a couple years ago. I've been using Linux/Unix for 7. I kick
! myself regularly.

I learnt vi by my five senses (modulo taste and smell I guess).  I'm poor
enough that I have to severely limit the amount of books I buy.  That
certainly rules out buying any sort of tutorial material.

Chris K.

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