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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Re: vi for power users
Summary: Why the long way?
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.174605.19649@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 90 17:46:05 GMT
References: <109909@convex.convex.com> <1371:Dec1108:11:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <4672@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <7150:Dec1309:42:4690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) wrote in
<7150:Dec1309:42:4690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>:

| In article <4672@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rouben@math15.math.umbc.edu.UUCP (Rouben
| Rostamian) writes:
| > Here is the "no bounce" version of the same macro:
| > 	map ^A :s/$/  /^M74^V|? ^Ms^M^[$xx0
| 
| Good idea. This is as reliable as the original:
| 
|   map ^A :s/$/ $/^M$r 74^V|? ^Ms^M^[$xx0

For both forms, why are things done the long way?

Why ":s/$/  /^M" instead of "A  ^["?
Why "? ^M" instead of "F ", as long as that the space will be on that line?
Why "s^M^[" instead of "r^M"?  "r^M" works fine in my own reformatting macro.
    (I won't post it because it has other bugs.)
Why "xx" instead of "2x"?  This is a macro in one's .exrc, so saying that
    "`xx' is easier to type every time you use it than `2x'" doesn't count.

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