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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi macro strangeness
Keywords: vi macro lowercase
Message-ID: <526@ssp9.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 16 Nov 90 15:54:10 GMT
References: <9400@b11.ingr.com>
Reply-To: dolf@idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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In article <9400@b11.ingr.com> brad@b11.ingr.com (Brad Maxwell) writes:
>The macro starts something like
>map! ^B  ^]bywPb....(so on and so on)
>
>which is supposed to back up, yank the word, put it in front of itself,
>and back up to the beginning again ( hello --> hello hello ).
>
>Anyway, this much of the macro gives ( hello --> bhello hello ).  The
>P command inserts the 'b' onto the line itself.  The keystrokes work
>fine by themselves, and the macro was posted by someone who really
>uses it.  What causes this and how do I fix it?

Some versions of 'vi' don't support Yanks (Y, yy etc) and Puts (p, P) inside
macro's. Sometimes you get a warning, sometimes you get someting unpredictable.
My vi has the same problem :-(
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