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From: mcvoy@rsch.WISC.EDU (Lawrence W. McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: stuff chars
Message-ID: <3007@rsch.WISC.EDU>
Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 20:37:04 EST
Article-I.D.: rsch.3007
Posted: Sat Nov 29 20:37:04 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Nov-86 21:46:52 EST
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: vi flip

I know this sort of question has been asked before, but try it again...

I understand that you can stuff chars back into the input stream of
a particular terminal, right?  At least on some BSD systems? Well,
how about a hack to vi that lets you do this from the editor?  Suppose
you made a macro like this (assuming that ":stuff" stuffs chars):

map ^X :stuff :suspend^M%-^M

The idea being to stuff the sequence of chars that would suspend the vi
job and restart the last previous suspended job.  Useful for flipping
between vi's (no flames from /dev/windows or /users/emacs, please)

Can this be done?
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