Obscure Vi bug?

[~XT6561110~Marc Mengel~C25~M27~6184~]

In article <rob.649040634 at dutncp8> rob at dutncp8.tudelft.nl (Rob Kurver) writes:
>In <618 at tetrauk.UUCP> rick at tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones) writes:
>>  This happens in any macro using p or P
>>followed by other characters, all the subsequent characters get inserted, not
>>obeyed as commands.  
>I've experienced the same problem with the ESIX version of vi.  When used
>in a macro, p and P don't work correctly.


	Having hacked on vi in the past, I would suspect this is yet
	another buffer management bug; i.e. the buffer containing the
	macro is being labeled as the "current" buffer for the p command.

	You can *probably* work around this by using a named buffer, as
	in 

		"ayyj"ap

	instead of

		yyjp

	in your favorite macros, as the vi buffer code is notoriously 
	tough to make sense of...
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