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From: dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Paste from macro in VI
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.155442.4722@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Jun 91 15:54:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.183544.514@otago.ac.nz>
Organization: VPnet Public Access Unix, Villa Park, Illinois  60181-2206
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andrew@otago.ac.nz wrote in <1991Jun11.183544.514@otago.ac.nz>:

| 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.

It's a cheap workaround, but map a key to :s/.*/&&/^M (you'll need to type
ctrl-V ctrl-M, of course, to save it in a mapping).  Actually, YPJ puts a
space between the two appearances, so maybe you want :s/.*/& &/^M instead.

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