Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread William Bulley
According to gahn on Fri, 02/19/10 at 16:11: > > How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same > line, of course with a space in between? Edit your file: (vi xyz) On an empty line, enter: iword(esc) Back up (left arrow) to the front of this line (column zero) Enter this sequ

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010, gahn wrote: >Hi, all: > >How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of >course with a space in between? Use a repeat count. The following is generated by this: 20a thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword thisword

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.19 16:11, gahn wrote: > Hi, all: > > How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of > course with a space in between? Yes. Using the word 'this' as an example: 100ithis Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

vi question

2010-02-19 Thread gahn
Hi, all: How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of course with a space in between? Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u