gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) (03/10/89)
From article <1742@ssc.UUCP>, by bel@ssc.UUCP (BF): > Does anyone know how to properly use the macros to > put macro body in buffers using yank or delete operators in vi? > > The information I have is: > > @x invokes macros > @@ repeats last macro > > I have been told these may not work. > Are these buggy on some systems? The usage is "[a-z]y<some-movement> or "[a-z]d<some-movement> " means you type a " [a-z] means one of the 26 letters (named buffers) y or d means you are either yanking or deleting into the named buffer <some-movement> means move the cursor to the end of the region that you wish to put into the buffer. typical usage would be that you have the command sequence on a line yWi^I^Icase ^[A:^M^I^I^Idebug ("case ^[pa\n");^M^I^I^Ibreak;^M^[^M which convienently changes FOO BAR FOOBAR to case FOO: debug ("case FOO\n"); break; case BAR: debug ("case BAR\n"); break; case FOOBAR: debug ("case FOOBAR\n"); break; Do this by typing '"ayy' to yank it into the 'a' buffer followed by placing the cursor on the line reading FOO and typing '@a' three times. If you have the string w !spell | more on a line and type '"byy' on that line followed by typing `:@b', then you will write the buffer to the spell command which will route its output to the more command via the pipe (this is all taken care of by the shell, not vi). There are lots of variations on this theme... -- Gregg Wonderly DOMAIN: gregg@ihlpb.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories UUCP: att!ihlpb!gregg
jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) (03/17/89)
From article <1742@ssc.UUCP>, by bel@ssc.UUCP (BF): > Does anyone know how to properly use the macros to > put macro body in buffers using yank or delete operators in vi? I can commend and recommend a dissertation on this very subject written by Fred Buck, and available in one of the Libraries of the TANGENT Forum on Compuserve. It is a thorough and clear exposition of mapping and macro assignment in vi. -- Jean-Pierre Radley Honi soit jpr@dasys1.UUCP New York, New York qui mal ...!hombre!jpradley!jpr CIS: 76120,1341 y pense ...!hombre!trigere!jpr