On 29Aug2010 12:21, Chip Camden <sterl...@camdensoftware.com> wrote: | I often find that I want to copy text from an email into another file. | Rather than reaching for the mouse to highlight the text and then start | my editor and paste it, I just forward the message to myself without | actually sending it. Since my email editor is vim, I can then yank the | text from the almost-forwarded message and then open the other file and | paste it. Then quit the original file and press 'n' to avoid sending it. | Anyone have an even easier hack?
Type 'e' to edit the message. Append lines 10,20 to another file: :10,20w other_file Quit without changing anything (thus not editing the message after all). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Isaac Asimov once remarked that friends had chided him for not patenting the electronic pocket calculator, since he wrote of similar devices back in the 1940's. His reply, "Have you ever noticed I only described what it looked like on the *outside*?" - i...@mediaone.net
