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- Article 2846 of alt.sources:
- Path: oce-rd1!hp4nl!mcsun!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!otc!gregm
- 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
- Lines: 464
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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.)
-
- 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.
-
- After studying these macros, anyone who cannot write an emacs emulator
- in vi macros should just curl up and :q!.
-
- 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.
-