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From: dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi map help needed
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.005648.7081@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Mar 91 00:56:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.052326.12313@cs.ucla.edu> <1991Mar06.004617.19066@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1991Mar9.053949.9736@cs.ucla.edu>
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gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu wrote in <1991Mar9.053949.9736@cs.ucla.edu>:

| I used X because it frequently means pick any value you want.  Forgive me.

Yes, I understood, but remember, I was aiming to explain it to someone who
might have been a beginner.

| I interpreted your posting to say that the user could use 5 or 7 ^V's and
| it would not make a difference.  My point was that it probably would.  (I
| don't know the precise implementation being used).

I tried it on two sites I call: on both, five or seven ^V presses (two or
three caret+V pairs on the screen) worked and one or three gave the "no
previous regular expression" error that the original poster complained about.

As for my unexpectedly user-friendly notation, I was carrying through the
original poster's method.  Moreover, to show ^M, no matter how well people
know that it means ctrl-M and not caret+M, always leaves the question of
whether you meant to press ctrl-M or to press ctrl-V ctrl-M so that a ctrl-M
is entered.  (The same goes for ^V and ^[.)

Yes, :%!tr -d '\015' is a better way to solve the problem (assuming that the
only CR's in the file will be the ones in the EOL's).  So are dtou and lef,
if you have them (or either).

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