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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VI question: how to initialize a named buffer from EXINIT?
Message-ID: <461@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 23:36:15 EDT
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In article <892@turtlevax.UUCP> ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) writes:
>I'd like to initialize a named buffer (maybe more) with some well-used
>commands (like removing blanks at the end of a line), so that I only
>need to execute the @<bufname> command to execute them.

Did you consider defining maps?  With them, one can define any key - including
function keys if available - to be a command.  For example, to define
the "b" key to remove any trailing blanks, one might use

	:map b :1,$s/  *$//^[

Note that ^[ is the escape key, ant must be preceeded by control-V (^V)
to get it into the command.  Try it.

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