[CLUE-Tech] One for the ViM gurus

[Matt Gushee]

Okay, suppose I have two files open in the editor. I would like to
find and mark a certain range of lines in file A, then find and mark a
range of lines in file B, then replace the marked text in file A with
the marked text from file B. Can anyone recommend a way to automate this
process ... or maybe I should say semi-automate, because while the start
of each block can be identified with regular expressions, I found it was
too much work to try to come up with a script that would correctly
identify the blocks of interest in every case. The main point is, once
I've marked the text I want, to be able to do the whole copy-and-replace
task as easily as possible, preferably with a single keystroke.

Thanks for any tips!

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