[vox-tech] vim question

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:08:33 -0700


begin Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> 
> hola,
> 
> one of my students asked me a question i couldn't answer.
> 
> at the bottom of the file, he has:
> 
> -> :!top
> -> :!nice -n10 planetary % &
> -> :w
> 
> he was playing around with vim and came up with the following macros:
> 
> > map <F12> mzG3l"zDp'z@z<CR>
> > map <F11> mzGk3l"zDp'z@z<CR>
> > map <F10> mzGkk3l"zDp'z@z<CR>
> > map <F9>  mzGkkk3l"zDp'z@z<CR>
> 
> so <F9> writes the file.
     ^^^^
heh.  you know what i mean!   :-)

pete