Modernization

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:03:39PM -0400):
| On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
| > Vi also has 26 hold buffers, a-z, which can be used to store
| > blocks of text while writing.  Even more scarey is that one can
| > load sequences of characters in a buffer, then execute them from
| > the buffer.  I frequently use this when dealing with complex
| > substitutions which allows me to edit the substitute until I get
| > it right.
| 
| I usually put such things on the end of
| 
| :map *
| 
| myself, I had forgotten you could execute the yank buffers.

One of the lost features of vi, which I've never seen in a man page.

I guess I should make Fred Buck's stellar article about 'vi' macros
available?

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JP
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