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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Paste from macro in VI
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.000240.5530@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 00:02:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.183544.514@otago.ac.nz>
Organization: Unix in NYC
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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.

map v :s/\(.*\)/\1\1/^M

where the ^M is inserted by first typing the ^V escape.


Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341