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While in an active Vim buffer, how can I havewrite out a bunchspecific range of lines that I want to write out to a differentnew file.
How can I do that without closing the current buffer first?

I have a bunch of lines that I want to write out to a different file.
How can I do that?

While in an active Vim buffer, how can I write out a specific range of lines to a new file without closing the current buffer first?

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vi/vim, how can I write out a number of lines to a new file

I have a bunch of lines that I want to write out to a different file.
How can I do that?