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From: javey@hybrid.UUCP (shahram javey)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: aligning columns in vi
Keywords: columns, vi, stress
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.015036.8245@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 01:50:36 GMT
References: <4868@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <24231@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <24231@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> wyle@iiic.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
>In article <4868@male.EBay.Sun.COM> The manager of information systems
>for Sun Microsystems' Eastern Headquarters, Carl Johnson, with e-mail
>address:  carl@mugwump.EBay.Sun.COM tells us:
>
>>	In vi what I want to do is align certain characters into the same 
>>	column.  For instance :-
>>		/*codecodecodecodecode */
>>		/*codecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodeco */
>>		/*codecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecode */
>>	some command like :1,$s/\/\*/>>\/\*/  ??
>>	would end up aligned so :-
>>		/*codecodecodecodecode				     */
>>		/*codecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodeco */
>>		/*codecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecodecode           */
>>
I cannot get the above to work. What is the magic component? How can
replacing /* by /*>> align comments? I hope someone explains the above.
>
>Use indent(1), Carl.  
>
>Indent does it better than vi macros.  
>
I don't have access to indent. I use vi on my DOS machine (please don't tell
me to change my OS. DOS plus MKS took-kit is all I can handle).

cheers...shahram javey