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From: brian@bucc2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vi question
Message-ID: <15100007@bucc2>
Date: 21 Mar 88 07:27:00 GMT
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Nf-From: bucc2.UUCP!brian    Mar 21 01:27:00 1988


> When I go into vi with two edit files specified, I sometimes would like to be
> able to edit just the first and say "Write out these changes and get out of
> the program all together".  I tried writing a macro called Q which would do
> a 
> :wq!
> and that didnt work.
> I then tried to get it to do:
> :wq!\n:q!
> and that didnt seem to work.  Anyone have any more ideas?
> Thanks!

Try:
map Q :wq!^VRETURN

  RETURN represents your enter key, be it marked newline, enter, return,
or whatever. ^V represents control-V.

  Note this could be a dangerous macro to have set up.

  Note also that if you re-map Q to do this, you can't use Q to do what
it normally does (go into ed-mode) without first unmapping Q.

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