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HELP VEDYANKBLOCK A.Sloman May 1987 vedyankblock(<vector of strings>) "Yank" a vector of strings into the VED buffer as a block starting at the current cursor location. Keywords: VED yank block vector strings insert This is used for packages that copy or move rectangular blocks of text in a VED buffer. Starting at the current cursor location, vedyankblock inserts one string per line, each string starting at the same column as the original cursor location. If VEDSTATIC is true then the new strings will over-write the existing text. Otherwise the previous text will be shifted to the right. VEDREFRESHBLOCK is used to refresh the visible part of the buffer affected, since on some terminals the refreshing done by vedinsertstring is too slow. VEDYANKBLOCK is used to define a number of the procedures mentioned in HELP * VEDBLOCKS WARNING: As explained in HELP * VEDCUTBLOCK, unexpected consequences may follow if some of the strings include tabs. In particular, the inserted text may not have exactly the same format as the original from which it was obtained. In that case further editing may be needed after insertion. See Also: HELP * VED HELP * VEDBLOCKS This gives an overview of facilities in VED for manipulating rectangular blocks of text. Related facilities are described in: HELP * VEDCUTBLOCK HELP * VEDREFRESHBLOCK REF * vedinsertstring HELP * VEDFILLBLOCK HELP * VEDOVERLAYBLOCK REF * ved_splice REF * ved_y --- C.all/help/vedyankblock --- Copyright University of Sussex 1991. All rights reserved. ----------