Vi

[John B. Milton]

In article <1103 at adds.newyork.NCR.COM> tanya at adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz) writes:
>In article  <13816 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Andy Behrens write:
>|In article <19890 at adm.BRL.MIL> thoyt at ddn-wms.arpa (Thomas Hoyt) writes:
>|>   Can Vi reformat a paragraph, justifying it properly....
>|
>|If you put the following line in your .exrc file, you can type "V" when
>|the cursor is anywhere in a paragraph, and the entire paragraph will be
>|rejustified by being piped through "fmt".
>|
>|	map V   0}!{fmt^M}
>|
>Well I liked this idea, but I usually don't like to overwrite the
>vi file, and wanted to just produce an nroff file from within vi.
 >
 >SO... here are my macros:
 >
 >	map M :!less %.out^M^M
 >	map V :!nroff %>%.out^M^MM^M
 >
 >This brought up an interesting question of file name manipulation
 >from within vi, and passed to the shell.
 >
 >% = the current file name, but how can I truncate it to just
 >the prefix if it is something like:
 >	name.1 
 >to get:
 >	name
 >or better yet `basename name`??

The prpgram basename can take a second argument, which is a string to remove
from the end of the path after the leading directory has ben stripped off.
So `basename /a/b/c/file.out .out` will be "file", and
`dirname /a/b/c/file.out`/`basename /a/b/c/file.out .out` will be "/a/b/c/file"

John
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