| Article 2846 of alt.sources: |
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| From: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane) |
| Newsgroups: alt.sources |
| Subject: VI SOLVES MAZE (commented macros) |
| Message-ID: <2289@otc.otca.oz> |
| Date: 10 Feb 91 23:31:02 GMT |
| Sender: news@otc.otca.oz |
| Reply-To: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane) |
| Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia |
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| Submitted-by: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au |
| Archive-name: maze_solving_vi_macros |
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| A real working model. See it walk the maze in front of your very own eyes. |
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| To prove that you can do anything in vi, I wrote a couple of macros that |
| allows vi to solve mazes. It will solve any maze produced by maze.c |
| that was posted to the alt.sources last month. (Maze.c is also included |
| in this posting as well as an example of its output.) |
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| The uncommented version of the macros was sent to alt.sources last month. |
| However, so many people mailed me requesting the commented version of the |
| macros that I decided to post it. I have made some modifications to the |
| original macros to make them easier to follow and also after I learnt |
| that you can escape the special meaning of '|' in macros by using '^V|'. |
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| Save this article and unshar it. Then read maze.README. |
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| After studying these macros, anyone who cannot write an emacs emulator |
| in vi macros should just curl up and :q!. |
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| Coming soon to a newsgroup near you: "Vi macros solve Tower of Hanoi", |
| and a repost of the original "Turing Machine implemented in Vi macros" |
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| Anyone who has a version of these macros for edlin or nroff, please post. |