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Re: vim undel



On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:21:33 +0000
Hugh Saunders <hugh@mjr.org> wrote:
> hello, i use vim to weed out large chunks of email so can quote
> [hopefully] the relevant bits. My method is :x,yd this is fine until i
> get one of the values wrong, then i may have deleted 10 more lines than
> expected.

    Others have answered about undo but here is another alternative.  You
could use v to mark the lines.  I'm not sure if it works with the range
prefixes but if it does it would highlight them before you delete.

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