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From: s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Stephen Riehm [Romulis])
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Loops in VI macros?
Keywords: vi, macros
Message-ID: <5973@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>
Date: 7 Oct 90 10:27:21 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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is it possible to create a macro useing vi's map and  map! functions that
will loop until some condition has become true? for exapmle
I use the following map to format my C code (rather than putting up with
the tabs that cb seems to like to use). It works ok, but if I want to do a
whole file I have to left shift the entire file.. then repeatedly use my
macro until I get to the bottom of the file.
Also this could be used as a nice temporary fix to the problem of the ~
(convert lower to upper case and vice versa) being only a single stroke
command.

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# 3 is a 'Civilised' indent width
:set sw=3
#map to put some sort of organisation into C code
:map @ /{^M>%<<^M^G
#note that ^ indicates ctrl character.
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thanx in advance
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Romulis [Stephen Riehm]	            Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
					       (124 Latrobe St., Melbourne.)
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au					   Australia.

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