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From: sjs@spectral.ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: VI macros
Keywords: editors, vi
Message-ID: <15697@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 27 Apr 89 14:25:06 GMT
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In article <238@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
> In article <175@inf.ethz.ch>, wyle@inf (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
> >" Map insert mode keys
> >map! #in #include
> >map! #de #define
> >map! #un #undef
> >map! #el #else
> >map! #en #endif
> 
> I use to do this, but stopped because if I cut some text
> out of one window system, and pasted it into another window
> system, the "#include" would become "#includeclude".

Back when I used to use VI I had some mappings like this too.  Here
are a few of the good ones:

 map! '' '
 map! '// /*
 map! '/* /*  */2hi
 map! 'in # include "X.h"3hs
 map! 'is # include <X.h>3hs
 map! 'de # define 
 map! 'if if (  ) {
 map! 'ei else if (  ) {
 map! 'el else {
 map! 'ie if (  ) {
 map! 'wh while (  ) {
 map! 'fo for (  ) {
 map! 'br break;
 map! 're return;i
 map! 'sw switch (  ) {
 map! 'ca case :
 map! 'fu /*

They are set up to work with auto-indent ON.

Using a "'" character for a prefix for two-character abbreviations
pretty much makes sure you'll not have any conflicts with valid C
syntax.  I'm not sure, but I think I stole this idea off of Eric
Krohn.

Stan Switzer  sjs@ctt.bellcore.com