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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme question?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:45:41 -0400
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>> If there is a file open (being edited) in acme. I
>> want to read-in the contents of another file
>> in the open file at the cursor position. How can I
>> achieve that?
>>
>> Can a part of the open file be written out to another
>> file?

another way besides the edit commands is to 
execute

<cat file

with the cursor at the location to insert.

and you can highlight the part to save
and execute

>cat>file

russ