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From: asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain)
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Subject: Re: VI: Positioning the cursor ("|") DOES work!!
Keywords: vi cursor
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Date: 20 Jun 91 03:22:12 GMT
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Written in article <1991Jun18.000454.6342@vpnet.chi.il.us>
    by dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin):

> asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) wrote in <165192@felix.UUCP>:
> |     a           enter append mode, so you can add ...
> |     ^V^M        ... a carriage return, quoted of course with ^V.
> |     J           Join the next line to the end of the new next line.
> 
> You must have some really strange vi.  After a^V^M you should still be in
> append mode and the J should be taken as additional text to add.  It
> shouldn't work as a join command unless you have ^V^[ in the mapping to
> return to command mode.

You're absolutely right, of course.  You need an ESCape to leave append
mode and return to "beep" mode.  That should have been "^V^M^[".  I was
so excited at having discovered a solution to a problem that had been 
nagging me for a long time, I got careless.

> In my own macro for it, I don't bother with hyphens but look only for spaces.
> That allows me to use this:
> 
> :map whateverkeyyouwant 77^V^V|F r^V^M
> 
> The space doesn't seem to need quoting.

This is true.  The space won't need quoting.

I write lots of stuff with hyphens and slashes etc., so I have a partic-
ular need for those kinds of word breaks.  Therefore, instead of "F ", I
have "?[- /]^V^M".  Instead of replacing the space with a CR, I just add
the CR after what may be a space, a hyphen, or a slash.  This will prop-
erly word break mother-in-
law, input/
output, as well as normal space separated words.

I use "nroff" to break between syllables.  I don't use it often, because 
of the subshell overhead, but occasionally it gives the nicest-looking 
result.