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From: slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Paste from macro in VI
Message-ID: <1096@dri500.dri.nl>
Date: 12 Jun 91 06:42:18 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.183544.514@otago.ac.nz>
Organization: DataCount Register Informatici, Wierden, The Netherlands
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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 [...]

Try:
:map <macrosequence> :s/.*/&&/^V^M

The ^V^M is a control-V followed by a return, to get the return into the
mapping. Note: this does not do exactly the same as YPJ; *that* inserts
a space between the original contents and the newly appended characters.
To get the same effect with this mapping, add a space between the two
ampersands ('&').
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