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From: rouben@math13.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: Paste from macro in VI
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.113800.16672@umbc3.umbc.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 11:38:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.183544.514@otago.ac.nz> andrew@otago.ac.nz writes:
>For a long time I have been trying to find a way around an anoying feature of
>vi.  What I want to do is to create a macro (with :map) that will copy the
>contents of this line onto the end of itself.
>
>This can be done outside a macro with YPJ  Withing a macro, I get the message
>"Cannot put inside global/macro".  I'm runnin on a SUN3/60 with SUNOS that
>announces itself as "Sun UNX 4.2 Release 3.5" and the version of vi that comes
>with it.

On ultrix you can get around this problem by yanking into a named buffer,
as in:
	"aY"aPJ
which will do what you want, but not perfectly.  For one thing, the terminal
beeps each time you execute the macro--I do not know why.  For another thing,
you may expect that after executing the macro, the buffer "a to contain the
previously yanked string, but it doesn't.  The bufer remains empty.

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