Obscure Vi bug?

[Rob Kurver]

In <618 at tetrauk.UUCP> rick at tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones) writes:
>On this subject, this version has another annoying bug, involving the use of p
>or P in macros.  E.g. I use a key mapping to swap adjacent characters, which is
>the sequence xph (the h keeps the cursor in the same position).  As a macro,
>the h gets inserted into the text!  This happens in any macro using p or P
>followed by other characters, all the subsequent characters get inserted, not
>obeyed as commands.  Lots of macros won't work because of this, including the
>wonderful word-completion macro recently posted in comp.editors.

>Is this unique to the SCO version of vi?  And will someone at SCO please fix
>it.

I've experienced the same problem with the ESIX version of vi.  When used
in a macro, p and P don't work correctly.

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