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From: rostamia@umbc5.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: vi command does not work in macro
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Date: 14 Oct 89 18:19:27 GMT
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In article <273@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>
>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) ?

The vi macros apparently do not handle yank and put of partial lines very
well.  You would run into the same problem if you defined a macro to yank and
put a partial line into a named buffer (as in "xy$"xp or in "xy`m"xp).
However, full lines are handled correctly (as in "xyy"xp or in "xy'm"xp).  I
do not know if this is a peculiarity of vi in Ultrix -- I am running Ultrix
on a DECstation3100 -- or if it is an inherent bug in vi.


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