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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi command does not work in macro
Message-ID: <3764@solo9.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Oct 89 17:51:16 GMT
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kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers) writes:
\...
\ :map ^A ddjjjp       (A)

	:map ^A :m+2^V^M

Especially for macros `ex' commands are worth learning too.

\... "Cannot put inside global/macro".

Vi's implementation is sick.

\ 1. This works file on single lines, but simply terribly on entire
\    paragraphs.  Does anyone have macros  (hopefully straightforward ones)
\    to move Multiple lines/blocks from within a macro?   

Something along the lines of this:

	:map v {jma}kmb:'a,'bm'c^V^M

This will put the current paragraph (without surrounding empty lines) below
the line marked `c'.

\ 2. Does anyone have any ideas on ways to pass parameters to macros? Is there
\    a version of VI that does?

You could let the user enter the parameters on a new line, and delete this
line into a register, to be executed with the `@<a-z>' command.
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