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Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray
November 1998
Beginner
368 pages
7h 58m
English
Peachpit Press
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Cutting and pasting text blocks in pico

As you're typing along in pico, you'll probably need to cut and paste blocks of text, as shown in Figure 4.5.

Figure 4.5. Marking, cutting, and pasting text in pico can be very handy.

To cut and paste text in pico:

1.
pico hairyspider
At the shell prompt, type pico followed by the name of the file to edit.
2.
Move the cursor to the first line of the text you want to cut.
3.
Press to mark the beginning ...
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