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From: loo@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com (Joel Loo)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Editor Wars
Keywords: editors, vi
Message-ID: <2297@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 1 May 89 22:30:19 GMT
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Reply-To: loo@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com (Joel Loo)
Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
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In article <238@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>>map! #in #include
>
>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".

You do not have to worry: the substitution will be done only if "#in"
is followed by a <space> (this is how 'abbr' works.) "#include" will 
not be substituted.
However, using of visible chars such as '#', ';' etc as prefixes to
macros is not a good practice. You are right, we shd try using chars
like ^X, ^V, <esc> etc.

ObMacro: 

"Execute the current line as editor command": good for interactive
macro/abbr testing. 
(Please replace control chars appropriately.)
  
    map ^Xm "dyy:@d^M

E.g. type in the following line in a vi buffer:

    map ^P !}fmt

on this same line press ^Xm 
a new macro ^P will get defined immediately.

-- Joel