rudy@alias.UUCP (Rudy Wortel) (03/08/91)
In article <5104@lure.latrobe.edu.au> ECSGRT@lure.latrobe.edu.au (GEOFFREY TOBIN, ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING) writes: > :.,.+3s/some long expression/another long expression/g... > OOPS! I mistyped something. > :BORING REPETITION WITH A ONE-CHARACTER CORRECTION >Command line editing for ex? Having done this same thing 5000 times my solution was to never type long : command at the command line. Instead i type them into the file where you get all your favorite editing features. i then delete the line into a named buffer and then execture the buffer with the @ command. To speed things up i have a macro for control X in my .exrc file the does the delete and execute for me. If the command didn't behave as expected then i undo the change put the buffer, edit and reexecute it. It works adequately for me. Here is my macro. It uses the named buffer 'd' map ^X "ddd@d As an aside you can exploit the function key maping to extend your macro set. VI lets you type #<digit> to simulate pressing a function key. The versions of vi i use don't check to make sure that the characters following the # are digits. i have many macros defined as #<letter> so that at last count i had 43 macros defined. -rudy