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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: Obscure Vi bug?
Message-ID: <63720022@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 90 15:36:25 GMT
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> / hpl-opus:comp.unix.questions / lester@ingr.com (Lester Bartel) /
> 8:12 am  Jul 30, 1990 /
> While we are on the subject of vi macro bugs, I have one to add.
> I cannot seem to make the | (pipe) work in a macro.  What I want is

That one works for me (HP-UX 7.0) if I precede the | with a ^V.  Try this:

:map \ 70^V|

where the ^V gets entered as "^V^V".  The pipe is a command delimiter
in ex (as e.g. in ":w|n"), therefore it needs escaping.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com