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From: erja@epimetheus.dk (Erik Jacobsen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: autowrite (was: Re: vi abbreviation for :w :n ?)
Message-ID: <3436@daimi.dk>
Date: 10 Oct 89 08:32:42 GMT
References: <4728@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM> <26465@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <BITBUG.89Sep22183111@lonewolf.sun.com> <5486@alvin.mcnc.org> <455@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> <3627@solo5.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: erja@daimi.DK (Erik Jacobsen)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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In article <3627@solo5.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>This is the way to go!  Once you know how to use `autowrite', life with vi
>becomes so much simpler...
>From the Vi Reference:
>...
>    aw                      | autowrite - Write at every shell escape.
>                            | (useful when compiling from within vi)
>...
>                            | `:map ^C :!cc %^V<cr>' to compile from within vi

If you don't like autowrite you could do it:

         : map ^C :w!^V<cr>:!cc %^V<cr>


>-- 
>The UNIX Way of doing something [...] is to make it look as much like a filter
>as possible.  (Richard O'Keefe)        | Maarten Litmaath (mcsun!botter!maart)


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