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From: irick@ecn.purdue.edu (GarBear Irick)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Help with vi's "map"
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.062510.27277@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 90 06:25:10 GMT
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Organization: Purdue Society for Better Computing
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Just for fun, I decided to map my function keys to compile a C program on-
the-fly.  The macro writes the current text out to a temp file, compiles it,
and goes back to the editor, as belo:

map @ :w! /tmp/irick/cprog.%:!cc -o /tmp/irick/EXEC /tmp/irick/cprog.%

The only _problem_ is, vi now thiks that /tmp/irick/... is the new filename
of the file, so when I ZZ or :wq to get out of vi, it changes the temporary
file, not the original one.  Is there a way to change the current filename
in vi WITHOUT writing over that filename?  Thanks.....

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