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Ohmster wrote:
> 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

Saw that. :(

> help me figure how to incorporate 6 wildcards into this macro?

I dunno if that's possible, but if it is and they feel like it, they
probably can help. What you're more likely to get is a different
approach/macro.


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