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From: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Can you write complex vi macros?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 07:33:35 GMT
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Reply-To: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane)
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It seems that you cannot have more than one "undo-able" vi command in the
one macro. This means that a complex vi macro must be split into several
smaller macros.

I'll explain what I mean by an example. Edit a file and type ":map Q rXY".
This should map the Q key to "replace the character under the cursor with X
and yank the line". But when I type Q, vi tells me "Can't yank inside
global/macro" and goes into ex mode. However if I type ":map Q rXT" and
":map T Y", everything is OK. I get this behaviour on a Sparc 1+, a Sun 3/50
and a Pyramid.

Does this happen at your site? Is there a reason for this madness?

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