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From: diomidis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Diomidis Spinellis)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question about vi macros
Summary: Only function keys can have meaningful names.
Keywords: vi editor, key mappings, function keys
Message-ID: <713@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 07:25:50 GMT
References: <1915@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Reply-To: diomidis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Diomidis Spinellis)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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In article <1915@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>[ Asks how he can set up the comment field of the vi map listing in the
> way it is done with the arrow keys.]

There is no way to set the comment field of an arbitrary key.  You can
however have the function keys have meaningful identifiers by mapping them
as #n (where n is the number of the function key).  Thus ``:map #6 w'' will
map function key 6 to w and will be listed as something like:
f6	^[[17~	w
The arrow key names are hard-coded in vi and apart from the function keys
special case the other mappings have the left hand side of the map used 
as the key name.

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Diomidis Spinellis