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To move cursor on the 4th line,toggle into normal mode,input 8yy.
To move cursor to 15th line,and toggle into normal mode,press p .
Now the lines from 4th till 11th was pasted from 15th till 22th line.
Can all the steps can be repalced with a command in ex mode?
To make it clear.
primitive file
target file
How to change primitive file into target file with a command in ex mode?
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly but is this what you're looking for?
:4,11t 15
This will copy lines from 4 to 11 and paste it on line 15.
See :h co for more.
