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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Can you access the current file name in a vi macro?
Message-ID: <768@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 05:25:32 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcsla.768
Posted: Fri Jan 25 05:25:32 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 05:26:49 EST
References: <153@wanginst.UUCP>
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Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science
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In article <153@wanginst.UUCP> diamant@wanginst.UUCP (Ira Diamant) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know if there is a way to access the name of the current 
>file in vi?  I want to build a small template generator using macros, but
>I have not been able to find this information in the documentation.
>
>				Thanks in advance

Well, sort of.   The character "%", used in shell-escapes (":!" or
"!<motion>" [e.g., "!!" for one line]) is expanded to the current
filename.   Likewise, "#" is expanded to the alternate filename,
if any.   For exmaple, try this command:
	:!ls -l %

So you could put that command into a mapping (and probably a macro
but not an abbreviation) by doing something like:
	:map V :!ls -l %^V^M

This will not work on older versions of VI for various reasons.

Hope this confuses you at least a little.
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