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Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote in
news:slrnfe1m43.u8u. @ :

> Okay. That's not always the case with my version of vim, when I go
> back and do editing in the middle of a line/paragraph.
>
>> posting program, newspost which is a command line program that calls
>> my EDITOR, vim in my case, for doing the text preface file. I tried
>> to use F5 in that and it did not do anything. I was able to use upper
>> case Q
>
> Look at the macro. It works when the file it's editing is named
> .article or .followup (new post or reply). The other program isn't
> going to be passing those filenames along to vim, so the macro isn't
> going to activage. IOW, it's doing just what it's supposed to do --
> only be mapped to F5 when being used within slrn.
>
>> I would like to use this macro for that because newspost does not
>> offer any auto-wrapping feature like slrn does with vim, any idea of
>> how to make it work?
>
> Nope.
>

Okay so, the other program does use a common filename structure, but then
there are always 6 random characters. You think that the editor group could
help me figure how to incorporate 6 wildcards into this macro?

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