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- From: veatch@cs.toronto.edu (Tim Veatch)
- Subject: Re: .exrc file for vi customization
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- Date: 10 Jan 93 02:30:43 GMT
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- Well, I missed the beginning portion of this thread, but
- anyway, I have a different question.
-
- I figured out how to do the vi macros well enough that I get
- the message "Too much macro text" when I invoke vi.
- Of course some of my macros at the end of my .exrc file
- don't work, because of this. (Anyway of forcing vi
- to accept more macro text?)
-
- What can I do for a work around? One of my macros is quite long
- - I'd say that one macro `invokes' about 15 other macros.
- I was thinking I could place all these commands in one file
- and :so that file, but that didn't work right. Seems
- it only does one command in that file at a time.
- (What is the format of the file for :so ? same as the .exrc?)
-
- I don't really understand the :so command.
- Besides, the hints in the vi, ed, ex man pages are quite
- skimpy.
-
- Any ideas?
-
-