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From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Paste from macro in VI
Message-ID: <3640@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 11 Jun 91 17:25:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.183544.514@otago.ac.nz>
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In <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.

I'm running SunOS 4.1.1, which comes with a somewhat different version of vi,
but I believe that this trick is universal: hide the fact that you are yanking
and putting inside the same macro by throwing more macro's at it, e.g.

:map K P
:map g YKJ

works for me.

--
Have a nice day,

Hans Mulder	hansm@cs.kun.nl