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# 1  
Old 04-30-2008
How to select Test in Vi Editor
Guys,

file1 is 10pages long in vi.
How to select the complete contents of the life.

Regards
# 2  
Old 04-30-2008
what is your intended operation ?

why do you want to select all the 10 pages ?
# 3  
Old 04-30-2008
In colon-mode ("ESC", ":") enter "1,$ <your command>" to execute your command on every line between line 1 and the last line (line $). This comes as close to "selecting" a range of text in vi as is possible. In vi you "select" nothing, but use a prefix for every command to tell it which part of the file it has to work on.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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