ir586@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (J Anthony Deutsch) (12/12/90)
Why does the macro: map q dd1GP give me the error : cannot put inside global/macro I'd like to rearrange the lines of my .newsrc file by preference, sending some to the top some to the bottom, but I haven't been able to work around this problem. Is there a workaround ? And anyway, does anyone know why the hell I can't put inside a global/macro ? gosh thanks in advance if some kind soul sheds some light on my miserable existance. YF.
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (12/12/90)
In article <14895@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ir586@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (J Anthony Deutsch) writes: >Why does the macro: > map q dd1GP >give me the error : > cannot put inside global/macro I *think* it's because of a common buffer used by both operations. Seems to me there's a comment in the code saying it would be fixed "later" date 1980. Sigh. Now, sometimes you can and sometimes you can't: " EXCHANGE MACROS -- for exchanging things " map v xp " exchange current char with next one in edit mode map V :m+1^M " exchange current line with next one in edit mode map! ^P ^V^[hxpa " exchange last typed char with penultimate one in insert mode So for the line ones, you break down and use the mv command, which is ok. You could do this in your case: map q :m1^M'' I like the '' to put me back where I was. --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning." -me
maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (12/13/90)
In article <14895@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, ir586@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (J Anthony Deutsch) writes: )Why does the macro: ) map q dd1GP )give me the error : ) cannot put inside global/macro That's a known bug. Workaround: learn `ex' commands! map q :m0^V^M -- In the Bourne shell syntax tabs and spaces are equivalent almost everywhere. The exception: _indented_ here documents. :-( Does anyone remember the famous mistake Makefile-novices often make?