| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Article 2846 of alt.sources: |
| 2 | Path: oce-rd1!hp4nl!mcsun!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!otc!gregm |
| 3 | From: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane) |
| 4 | Newsgroups: alt.sources |
| 5 | Subject: VI SOLVES MAZE (commented macros) |
| 6 | Message-ID: <2289@otc.otca.oz> |
| 7 | Date: 10 Feb 91 23:31:02 GMT |
| 8 | Sender: news@otc.otca.oz |
| 9 | Reply-To: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane) |
| 10 | Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia |
| 11 | Lines: 464 |
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| 13 | Submitted-by: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au |
| 14 | Archive-name: maze_solving_vi_macros |
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| 16 | A real working model. See it walk the maze in front of your very own eyes. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | To prove that you can do anything in vi, I wrote a couple of macros that |
| 19 | allows vi to solve mazes. It will solve any maze produced by maze.c |
| 20 | that was posted to the alt.sources last month. (Maze.c is also included |
| 21 | in this posting as well as an example of its output.) |
| 22 | |
| 23 | The uncommented version of the macros was sent to alt.sources last month. |
| 24 | However, so many people mailed me requesting the commented version of the |
| 25 | macros that I decided to post it. I have made some modifications to the |
| 26 | original macros to make them easier to follow and also after I learnt |
| 27 | that you can escape the special meaning of '|' in macros by using '^V|'. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Save this article and unshar it. Then read maze.README. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | After studying these macros, anyone who cannot write an emacs emulator |
| 32 | in vi macros should just curl up and :q!. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Coming soon to a newsgroup near you: "Vi macros solve Tower of Hanoi", |
| 35 | and a repost of the original "Turing Machine implemented in Vi macros" |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Anyone who has a version of these macros for edlin or nroff, please post. |