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Article #215Re: Obscure Vi bug?
From: ~XT6561110~Marc Mengel~C25~M27~6...
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 1990 21:51
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 1990 21:51
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In article <rob.649040634@dutncp8> rob@dutncp8.tudelft.nl (Rob Kurver) writes:
>In <618@tetrauk.UUCP> rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones) writes:
>> This happens in any macro using p or P
>>followed by other characters, all the subsequent characters get inserted, not
>>obeyed as commands.
>I've experienced the same problem with the ESIX version of vi. When used
>in a macro, p and P don't work correctly.
Having hacked on vi in the past, I would suspect this is yet
another buffer management bug; i.e. the buffer containing the
macro is being labeled as the "current" buffer for the p command.
You can *probably* work around this by using a named buffer, as
in
"ayyj"ap
instead of
yyjp
in your favorite macros, as the vi buffer code is notoriously
tough to make sense of...
--
Marc Mengel mmengel@cuuxb.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!att!ll1a!cuuxb!mmengel From: mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6561110~Marc Mengel~C25~M27~6184~) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Obscure Vi bug? Message-ID: <4886@cuuxb.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Aug 90 21:51:15 GMT References: <798@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <846@mwtech.UUCP> <618@tetrauk.UUCP> <rob.649040634@dutncp8> Reply-To: mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) Followup-To: comp.bugs.sys5 Organization: AT&T National Technical Support Center Lines: 28