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From: badner@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Judy Badner)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: wanted: another macro for 'rn'
Message-ID: <22252@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 90 14:55:02 GMT
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Reply-To: badner@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Judy Badner)
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In article <15714@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> palmerp@argus.math.orst.edu (Paul A. Palmer) writes:
<The problem is, sometimes the threads are LONG. What I'd like to do is to be
<able to determine in advance how long a thread is. With my limited (but slowly
<growing!!) knowledge of macros, I can't find a way to do this.
<Anyone have any ideas on how to construct such a macro? (I realize I could use
<'=' and count them myself, but this is an inelegant solution.)

Try /<esc>s/= at the reading level or /%s/= at the macro level.  This should be
equivalent to the = command just for the subject of your interest.

Judy