[Novalug] VI - rieties (was Re: vi question)

[Jon LaBadie]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:02:04AM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Sunday 12 April 2009 7:59:04 pm Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:45:00PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > > 
> > > I know how to delete to the end of a sentence ("df.")
> > 
> > No, that delete upto, and including a period.  d) (right paren) deletes to
> > the beginning of the next sentence.
> 
> How does it determine the end of a sentence, if not "location of the next 
> period"?
> 

Period is not the only character that ends sentences and periods
may appear in things like IP addresses that are not the ends of
sentences.

btw left paren works back to the beginning of a sentence.  And
curly braces {} work back and forward for paragraphs.  However
as none of you use n/troff anymore, the only meaningful paragraph
definition is a blank line.  Extra credit for square brackets.

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