alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) (03/28/91)
This sort of thing has undoubtedly been hashed over before, so I ask
for your indulgence to a newcomer to comp.editors.
I'd like to be able to create bold text in a vi document, without the
constraints of having the source be nroff input. One way that occurred to
me was to embolden one character at a time, to get the same result that
nroff produces, e.g. S^HS^HS^HS for a bold 'S'.
"ayla\^H\^H\^H^[hh"apl"apl"apl
works in the editor, but when mapped, it inserts the 3 backspaces, beeps
twice and leaves me on the next line. I think it has to do with the buffer
transaction, but i'm not sure. It seems to me that I've had some trouble
with ^[ in those map strings before...
Thanks for any clues, or suggestions for better solutions to the original
problem.
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Tom von Alten email: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Disk Mechanisms Division
208 323-2711____________________________alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) (03/28/91)
A little asking, a few clues and some trial and error produced one
solution (which purposely avoids yank):
" Embolden one character: Append a backspace. Backup one char and delete
" 2 chars. Put,put,put. Backup one char, delete it and Put it back.
" Move forward one char and put again. Voila!
map #4 a\^H^[h2xPpphxPlp
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Tom von Alten email: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Disk Mechanisms Division
208 323-2711____________________________alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) (03/28/91)
Or even cleaner: " Embolden one character: Append a backspace. Backup one char and delete " 2 chars. Put,put,put,put, then delete the last backspace. map #4 a\^H^[h2xPpppx Except for one niggling problem - in my .exrc file, this behaves as if I hit carriage return after the above string - it leaves the cursor on the beginning of the next line. What's wrong?? _____________ Tom von Alten email: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) (04/03/91)
I tracked down the <cr> problem - it seems the default definitions for softkeys on the HPterm I'm using includes it. Mapping the character sequence to a "regular" key (like ^A) makes it work just fine. Thanks to Ed Allen for helping me figure it out.