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From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi map help needed
Keywords: vi
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.154304.10163@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:43:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar2.210747.26919@solo.csci.unt.edu> <1991Mar04.162508.352@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Mar08.181732.2458@demon.co.uk>
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In article <1991Mar08.181732.2458@demon.co.uk>, cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff
Stanford) writes:
|> On a similar problem, can anyone *please* tell me why the following
|> does not work?
|> map! ^F ^V^M	{			/* ^V^[?(^V^MyB``pa */ ^V^[yypr}O
|> It is supposed to take the following line type
|> int xyzzy()
|> 	and make:
|> int xyzzy()
|> 	{	/* xyzzy */
|> 	
|> 	}	/* xyzzy */
|> what it does is to make:
|> int xyzzy()
|> 	{	/* a */
|> 
|> 	}	/* a */

It works fine in my vi (SunOS 4.1.1). You might want to try using named
buffers, i.e.:

map! ^F ^V^M	{			/* ^V^[?(^V^M"ayB``"apA */ ^V^[yypr}O

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )