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From: dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI: Positioning the cursor ("|") from within a macro doesn't work.
Keywords: vi cursor
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.224137.21347@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Jun 91 22:41:37 GMT
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Organization: VPnet Public Access Unix, Villa Park, Illinois  60181-2206
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wmb@ulysses.att.com (W M Brelsford) wrote in <14977@ulysses.att.com>:

| "|" needs to be protected with "^V" (Ctrl-V).

It needs to be protected with a fully entered ^V, which means typing ctrl-V
twice when you enter the :map command (either during a session or into your
.exrc) so that one ^V sticks.

| ..(macro to join two text lines, then split before column 77):
| >	:map ^W J77|bi^M^[
| 
| A minor modification:
| 
| 	:map ^W J77^V|BBf r^M

                J77^V|Bhr^M

will do the same thing a little more efficiently.  It will keep every line
down to seventy-four or fewer columns.  Note that it none of the three does
what the orignal poster seems to want if the two joined lines together take
up seventy-four or fewer columns.

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