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From cn@Materna.DE (Carsten Neumann)
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Subject: Re: View Content of Buffer
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Date: 1 Jul 93 12:57:36 GMT
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In <1993Jun30.075639.5512@alf.uib.no> chun@eik.ii.uib.no (Chunming Rong) writes:
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> Does anyone know how to view the content of the buffers within VI?
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> Emacs has such function.
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What's wrong with
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"ap
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for printing buffer a at cursor location and
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u
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for clearing this lines?
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BTW: Please cut your .sig!
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Carsten
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Carsten Neumann cn@Materna.de (+49 231) 5599-196 (work)
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Schwerter Str. 215, DW-4600 Dortmund 41, (+49 231) 448341 (home)
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From mac@bnr.ca (Michael Campbell)
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Subject: Re: View Content of Buffer [VIM can do this]
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Date: 2 Jul 1993 16:56:59 GMT
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I have heard a lot of praise for VIM in this group (and others). I
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downloaded a copy myself a few weeks ago, to my DOS/Windows box, and
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gave it a whirl. I almost immediately removed it from my machine when
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I discovered that it *insists* on displaying my .exrc :map commands on
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the terminal prior to bringing up the file I have asked it to edit.
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The documentation suggests that this is the way it is supposed to act
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under DOS. Strangely enough, it doesn't do this under Unix (also
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tried the Unix variant of the same version).
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So the question is (if you haven't guessed by now!), is there any way
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to stop VIM from displaying the :map commands when run under DOS?
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This is so annoying that I returned to Elvis, which is very good.
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Thanks in advance for any help.
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========================================================================
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Michael Campbell BNR Inc. Richardson, Tx.
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214-684-5595 (ESN 444) Dept 2Q35 email: mac@bnr.ca
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========================================================================
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"A baby is a bundle of needs that initiates a 20 year parental emergency"
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-Gail Sheehy
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From darkstar@bach.udel.edu (The Sleepless Wonder)
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Subject: Re: View Content of Buffer [VIM can do this]
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 20:31:35 GMT
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In article <211pcr$1bb@crchh327.bnr.ca> mac@bnr.ca (Michael Campbell) writes:
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>I have heard a lot of praise for VIM in this group (and others). I
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>downloaded a copy myself a few weeks ago, to my DOS/Windows box, and
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>gave it a whirl. I almost immediately removed it from my machine when
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>I discovered that it *insists* on displaying my .exrc :map commands on
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>the terminal prior to bringing up the file I have asked it to edit.
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>The documentation suggests that this is the way it is supposed to act
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>under DOS. Strangely enough, it doesn't do this under Unix (also
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>tried the Unix variant of the same version).
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>
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>So the question is (if you haven't guessed by now!), is there any way
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>to stop VIM from displaying the :map commands when run under DOS?
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>This is so annoying that I returned to Elvis, which is very good.
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>Thanks in advance for any help.
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Well, believe it or not, there is a way around it. (I should probably
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cross-post this to alt.hackers 8)
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Rename _vilerc to something like vile.rc (sounds like a good DOS name).
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Then set your exinit environment variable to this: set exinit=so vim.rc
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What happens is that vim doesn't find the default rc file so thus
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defaults to looking at the env variable for instructions. The
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instructions say to source file. When a file is sourced, it doesn't
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display the key mappings...
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Now, to make two comments. VIM is a great editor/vi clone, with one
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exception. VIM has to edit the file in memory. No problem on
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systems with flat memory models, but on DOS boxes, you can't edit large
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files (approximately anything larger then 700k on my system). I think
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that the
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