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From: gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: Can you write complex vi macros?
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Date: 21 Mar 91 06:31:09 GMT
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In article <2483@otc.otca.oz> gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane) writes:
>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.

Not correct.  Consider:

  :map X rxlrx     (where is X can be another character)

This map changes the character under the cursor to x and then changes
the character to the right to x.

u will undo both changes.

As a general rule, your statement is not correct.

> vi tells me "Can't yank inside global/macro"

Vi has a known bug with respect to the unnamed buffer.

David Gast