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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi backwards 'e'
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Date: 12 Apr 90 23:16:39 GMT
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wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:

>I'd like to make macro that reliably backs up by the ends of
>words, in the manner the 'b' does at the beginning. My first
>attempts have not worked well, for reasons that become clear
>once you try it ;-}

clearly 
	
	:map -- be

doesn't work since it returns you to the beginning of the current
word and then moves you to the end of that word.  But why not

	:map -- BBE

The only time this won't work is when the prior word is a single letter.
So what!  In most other cases it works perfectly.  Or doesn't this qualify
for David's definition of "reliably"?
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