how to "select all" in "vi"?

[cqmyg5]

if vi a text file longer than a screen as:

#vi aa.log

how to select "all" content of aa.log in current vi window?

 

[miholee]

type ggyG

 

[cqmyg5]

Thank miholee!

It show "nnn lines yanked", but how to paste these lines to another vi windows?

 

[RoZ]

Hi,

another way to apply commands to a part or all of a file is to
specify the region by its line numbers.

:1,10w newfile
... writes the first 10 lines to file 'newfile'

:1,$s/foo/bar/g

replace all occurances of 'foo' with 'bar'

HTH, RoZ

 

[Nexus Po]

Useful link/ebook on vi is at:

**broken link removed**

cheers.

Thank miholee!

It show "nnn lines yanked", but how to paste these lines to another vi windows?

 

[realtek]

>ESC(command mode)
>1,%w:tmp
>:r filename #(another file )
#go to the line where you want to past
>:r tmp

 

[gaonkc]

you can use :%s for replace
and CTRL - v ,then use cursor select all