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From: sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: macros in vi
Keywords: vi
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Date: 14 Nov 89 23:12:31 GMT
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In article <4528@ski.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>In article <1989Nov10.015031.21474@ntvax.uucp> gene@ntvax.UUCP (Gene De Lisa) writes:
>\could someone tell me how to use @ macros in vi?
>\the manual i have says follow the @ with the name of a buffer.
>\how do you get the macro into the buffer in the first place
>\(besides typing them in and yanking them). [...]
Yep, you have to _virtually_ type them in and yank them.  Meaning you can
map a key to do it for you BUT! this causes your file to be [edited].
I've long anguished over that fact that you cannot set/append named buffers
without "editing" your file.
For example:

"       find current word as tag (should be ^] and sadly modifies your file)
"       This is a very simple idea of a word.  More complex patterns work also
map ** mq:co.^V^M`qd0:s/^\([a-zA-Z_]*\).*/:ta \1/^V^M"wdd@w

The vi I currently use doesn't support ^] (I'm trying to get a reasonable
vi to compile on my rt runing AIX 2.2.1 :-() so I'm forced to use this
hack which touches my .c files.

>If you want to set such a macro in EXINIT/.exrc:
>
>	map @a ...
I don't believe this is true on various vi's I've tried.
This simply maps the sequence @a to "..."
Am I wrong/confused or were you just thinking out of context???

-- sanders