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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi for power users
Message-ID: <5912@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Dec 90 09:50:49 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>
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In <7150:Dec1309:42:4690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>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

>I hope the ``fmt is too slow!'' crowd is satisfied now.

(BTW I am in category 4 (knowledgable user) in Tom's new hierarchy, so I
can just about follow this)

OK, so given that I have defined one of these 'split a line at char
seventy something macros' how do I get it to format a whole paragraph.
Surely I don't sit there typing ^AJ a lot.

Forgive me if I am being stupid.

Compliments of the season to you.

				Mark.

>---Dan
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