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From: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: vi map magic for "embolden"?
Message-ID: <15030001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 16:24:24 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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This sort of thing has undoubtedly been hashed over before, so I ask
for your indulgence to a newcomer to comp.editors.

I'd like to be able to create bold text in a vi document, without the
constraints of having the source be nroff input.  One way that occurred to
me was to embolden one character at a time, to get the same result that
nroff produces, e.g. S^HS^HS^HS for a bold 'S'.

"ayla\^H\^H\^H^[hh"apl"apl"apl

works in the editor, but when mapped, it inserts the 3 backspaces, beeps
twice and leaves me on the next line.  I think it has to do with the buffer
transaction, but i'm not sure.  It seems to me that I've had some trouble
with ^[ in those map strings before...

Thanks for any clues, or suggestions for better solutions to the original
problem.
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Tom von Alten           email: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
                        Hewlett-Packard Disk Mechanisms Division
                        208 323-2711____________________________