And a massive "thank you" to you for your words of advice!

Theerasak Photha wrote:
> 
> On 3/20/07, maskkkk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a 9MB XML files I am working with.
>>
>> I would like to select a block of about 90,000 lines in a file and copy
>> them
>> to the clipboard so they can be pasted in another file.
>>
>> Doing this with the mouse would probably take until the sun burns out.
>>
>> Is there anyway to say to vim:
>>
>> "Start selecting on line 3, and continue selecting to 90,000" ?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> Go to Normal mode. Type 3G, then you *probably* want 90000"+yy to copy
> to clipboard.
> 
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> not understand such knowledge." --- Proverbs 29:7
> 
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