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From beaumont@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (Tony Beaumont)
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Subject: vi macros for block copy/move
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Date: 4 Jul 92 13:10:51 GMT
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I am using vi and I have four macros defined in my .exrc for block
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operations on text:
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\C and \c copy a block of text (from between marks a and b) to before
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or after the current cursor position.
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\M and \m move a block of text (from between marks a and b) to before
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or after the current cursor position.
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The lines in my .exrc to define these macros are as follows...
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map \C mz'b"zy'a'z"zP
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map \c mz'b"zy'a'z"zp
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map \M mz'b"zd'a'z"zP
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map \m mz'b"zd'a'z"zp
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My problem is this, whever I do \c or \C I get a beep from my terminal. This
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does not happen when I do \M or \m. The beeping seems to come after the text
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is put into the z buffer and before moving back to the z mark to put the text.
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I do not get the beep if I type the command sequences for \c and \C by hand.
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Anyone tell me why I get a beep and how I can get rid of it.
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(please reply by email because I don't read this newsgroup often. I'll
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post any solutions that work back to the newsgroup)
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-Tony Beaumont
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email: beaumont@uk.ac.bristol.compsci
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snail: Tony Beaumont,
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Advanced Computing Research Center,
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University of Bristol,
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Bristol, BS8 1TR,
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UK
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From brandy@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BRANDAUER CARL M)
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Subject: Re: vi macros for block copy/move
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 17:27:47 GMT
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Using macros to do block copying/moving seems overly complicated since
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there are ex/ed commands designed for the purpose. From my SVR3 manual:
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(.,.)ma
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will move the addressed block after the line addressed by a, while
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(.,.)ta
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will duplicate the addressed block after the ine addressed by a. Both
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work in vi even though ex uses different command names.
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Note that with these commands you are no longer restricted to using marks
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for selecting the block, although they work just fine.
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Cheers - Carl
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