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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi macros
Keywords: macros meta chars
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.233028.11106@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 23:30:28 GMT
References: <4625@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <1991Jan25.075031.11182@convex.com> <1991Jan28.164208.28876@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1991Jan28.164208.28876@ddsw1.MCS.COM> dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin) writes:
>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.

or you could use 0, which takes you to the first character on a line,
whereas ^ takes you to the first non-whitespace character.

Dylan.
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