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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Why oh Why "Cannot put inside global/macro"
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Date: 12 Dec 90 05:33:53 GMT
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In article <14895@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ir586@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (J Anthony Deutsch) writes:
>Why does the macro:
>	map q dd1GP
>give me the error :
>	cannot put inside global/macro

I *think* it's because of a common buffer used by both operations.
Seems to me there's a comment in the code saying it would be 
fixed "later" date 1980.  Sigh.

Now, sometimes you can and sometimes you can't:

"       EXCHANGE MACROS -- for exchanging things
"
map v xp
"       exchange current char with next one in edit mode
map V :m+1^M
"       exchange current line with next one in edit mode
map! ^P ^V^[hxpa
"       exchange last typed char with penultimate one in insert mode

So for the line ones, you break down and use the mv command, which
is ok.  

You could do this in your case:

    map q :m1^M''

I like the '' to put me back where I was.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
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