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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi macros
Keywords: macros meta chars
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.164208.28876@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 16:42:08 GMT
References: <4625@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <1991Jan25.075031.11182@convex.com>
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Wheeling, Illinois
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) wrote in
<1991Jan25.075031.11182@convex.com>:

| From the keyboard of carl@mugwump.UK.Sun.COM (Carl Johnson - Sun EHQ - MIS):

| :	I am also having problems with the automatic commenting macro :-

[Carl quotes a previous recommendation by Tom:]

| :	"       from edit mode, this comments a line
| :	map ^X ^i/* ^[A */^[^

[Carl asks:]

| : I know the ^X is a control char but is the ^i? If so, how do I
| : get it? I tried the usual way of hitting ctrl-V first but this didn't work.

[Tom explains:]

| the ^i is a ^ (caret) plus an i.

vi's I does the same thing is ^i, is shorter to type, and doesn't confuse
people in print.
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