Obscure Vi bug?

[Gunter Steinbach]

> / hpl-opus:comp.unix.questions / lester at ingr.com (Lester Bartel) /
> 8:12 am  Jul 30, 1990 /
> While we are on the subject of vi macro bugs, I have one to add.
> I cannot seem to make the | (pipe) work in a macro.  What I want is

That one works for me (HP-UX 7.0) if I precede the | with a ^V.  Try this:

:map \ 70^V|

where the ^V gets entered as "^V^V".  The pipe is a command delimiter
in ex (as e.g. in ":w|n"), therefore it needs escaping.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach at hplabs.hp.com