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Old April 14th, 2008   #1
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[SOLVED] quick question about vi

How can I paste text from a browser to a file edited with vi?

I need to put a lot of text into my nethack options file , and on nethack.alt.org editing of this file is vi- based.

I only know how to cut/paste within a file.
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