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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!stl!bmdhh243!bcars267!bcarh600!mschee
  2. From: mschee@bcarh600.bnr.ca (Michael SamChee)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.editors
  4. Subject: How do we include a "|" in vi macros ??
  5. Keywords: vi, macros, special characters
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.185656.12365@bnr.ca>
  7. Date: 31 Aug 92 18:56:56 GMT
  8. Sender: news@bnr.ca (usenet)
  9. Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
  10. Lines: 9
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: bcarh600
  12.  
  13. Does anyone know how one can include the pipe character "|" in a vi macro?
  14.  
  15. eg. map ^A :!exec cat tmp | more
  16.  
  17. Nothing I've tried seems to work.
  18. Hmm.
  19.  
  20. Thanxs,
  21. Michael.
  22.