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In article <1992Dec9.182912.5853@telesciences.com> ciacovel@telesciences.com
(Chris D Iacovelli) wrote:

I> While reading this thread, I was testing the possibility of:

I> :map! ^V^V  ^V^V ^V<Esc>:w!^V^Ma

I> However, I noticed that when I try do do anything from the command prompt
I> that involves spaces, the above macro is executed.

I> Therefore, it seems that in the command mode, vi acts as if the command
I> line is in insert mode.

I> Is this the case or am I missing something?

Yes, that's how it works and that is part of the problem I posted.  At a
colon escape, all map!pings for insert mode are in effect.  If you map
<space>, you have to ^V every space you type at the colon prompt.

Since I type two spaces between sentences, I map!ped <space><space> as
follows (^V represents a hard ctrl-V stored with two presses of ctrl-V,
likewise ^M is a stored ^M entered with ctrl-Vctrl-M) in my .exrc:

:map! ^V ^V  ^V ^[:w!^Ma [with a trailing space]
           ^^ two spaces between the second and third ^V's

It's very rare to have two adjacent spaces in a colon escape.  For those
infrequent occasions, I don't mind ctrl-V'ing one of them.

Between that map!ping and this one --

:map! ^M^M ^M^[:w!^Mi^M

I get a lot of checkpointing.  I also have autowrite set on and
:map @@ :w!^M
for command mode.

[The need to end the map!ping of ^M^M with i^M instead of o comes from what
 happens when I break an existing paragraph by adding text inside it.]

What I really need is an editor that preserves and recovers properly; no,
what I really need is a better connection to ddsw1.  Illinois Bell eats.

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