Quoth Cameron Simpson on Monday, 30 August 2010: > 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
'e' is 'e'ven better. Thanks! -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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