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From: kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Stephen Kinzler)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi abbreviation for :w :n ?
Message-ID: <26465@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 89 00:19:17 GMT
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scott@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott Huddleston) writes:
>When editing multiple files in vi, I'd like a faster(*) way to write
>changes and move on to the next file than :w RETURN :n RETURN or
>ZZ:n RETURN.  Is there a faster way?  Thanx in advance.

This is pretty much what macros were made for.  Here's mine:

	map q :w^M:n^M
	(the ^M's are really carriage returns, prefaced with ctrl-v)

Put this in your EXINIT environment variable or your ~/.exrc file.

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