[CLUE-Tech] vi macro question

[David Anselmi]

To make the below a macro, in command mode type:

:map <macro keys> d'<mark letter>

Then when you type (in command mode) <macro keys> you'll delete to the point
you've set mark.  But d'<mark> seems short enough not to require a macro.

Jonathan Mowers wrote:

> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Lynn Danielson wrote:
>
> > I'd like to have a vi macro that will delete all lines
> > from a previously marked line to the current line that
> > my cursor is on.  Does anyone here know how to do this?
>
>  Have you tried just hitting d`<mark>, setting the mark with the m key and
> then a letter.
>
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Lynn,

I don't know about macros in vi but here's how I do it.  Maybe it could be 
macroized.  If the previously line is marked (ma) and the current line is 
marked (mb), then from the vi command line do

:'a,'b d

and all lines from a to b (inclusive) are deleted.

Phil North
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