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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: vi command does not work in macro
Message-ID: <273@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 13 Oct 89 10:52:02 GMT
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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I wanted to duplicate a word somewhere in the middle of a sentence.
The command I used was:
        df Pp
(There is a space between the 'f' and 'P')
After having noticed I required a lot of these duplications, I defined:
        :map v df Pp
Invoking the macro `v' did not do the job: the word is only preceeded by
a `p', leaving the cursor at the space after the involved word.
Apparently the word is deleted (by the `df '), put back (by the `P')
and the `p' is inserted in the front. This really puzzles me. Why is p
inserted (there is no `aAiI') and why in the front (at the back seems a
more logical place as that is where the cursor is) ?
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