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  1. Newsgroups: comp.editors
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!pckizer
  3. From: pckizer@tamsun.tamu.edu (Philip Kizer)
  4. Subject: Re: How do we include a "|" in vi macros ??
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.215129.4564@tamsun.tamu.edu>
  6. Keywords: vi, macros, special characters
  7. Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
  8. References: <1992Aug31.185656.12365@bnr.ca>
  9. Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:51:29 GMT
  10. Lines: 12
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  12. mschee@bcarh600.bnr.ca (Michael SamChee) writes:
  13. >Does anyone know how one can include the pipe character "|" in a vi macro?
  14. >eg. map ^A :!exec cat tmp | more
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  16. Try:
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  18. map ^V^A :!exec cat tmp ^V^V| more
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  22. later,
  23. philip
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