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asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) wrote in <165192@felix.UUCP>:

|     a           enter append mode, so you can add ...
|     ^V^M        ... a carriage return, quoted of course with ^V.
|     J           Join the next line to the end of the new next line.

You must have some really strange vi.  After a^V^M you should still be in
append mode and the J should be taken as additional text to add.  It
shouldn't work as a join command unless you have ^V^[ in the mapping to
return to command mode.

In my own macro for it, I don't bother with hyphens but look only for spaces.
That allows me to use this:

:map whateverkeyyouwant 77^V^V|F r^V^M

The space doesn't seem to need quoting.

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