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Re: vi -c



On Sun 27 Apr 2014 at 18:30:37 +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2014, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> >My question remains: is there a way to set off two commands with vi
> >-c? If yes, how? I didn't find a separator that works yet.
> 
> I don't know.

The separator is | (vertical bar). Not so intuitive...

For reading a new file in front of the existing text, instead of after
the current line, use "0read filename" instead of "read filename".
The 0 is the line number.

> >If not, any other ideas how to get what I want?
> 
> vi -c 'source commandfile', where commandfile contains all the commands
> you want.

If you need to do many or long commands, that is certainly a better
option. And maybe i and a commands would even work.

> --apb (Alan Barrett)
-Olaf.
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