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From: rouben@math15.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: vi for power users
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Date: 13 Dec 90 02:40:59 GMT
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In article <1371:Dec1108:11:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
|Here's my favorite macro (like Tom's ^O):
|
|   map ^A o $^[kJ$r 073l? ^Ms^M^[$xx0
|
|Split a line properly at 72 characters (from the left margin), leaving
|the cursor on the second half of the line and beeping if the second line
|is blank. A lot faster than fmt, though on a slow connection you may not
|like the screen bounce.

[... other macros deleted ...]

Here is the "no bounce" version of the same macro:

	map ^A :s/$/  /^M74^V|? ^Ms^M^[$xx0

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