Newsgroup: alt.hackers

In article <1991Nov26.233027.22840@microsoft.com> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:

....of a way to do quick-and-dirty hypertext by using a hacked-to-death
version of vi that can interpret the output of grep -n pattern files /dev/null:

>But the beauty part is a feature of the proprietary vi I use.  It is a
>command that looks at the beginning of the line the cursor is on, parses
>out a filename and loads it; it attempts to parse out a line number, and if
>it finds one, it goes to that line number.

Obligatory hack:
What is wrong with using the following vi macro:

map , 0dt:o^[PI:e! ^[k0ldt:jA^M:^[$pA^M^[kk"qdj@q

(Change ^X to control-X when you enter it into your .exrc file.  View the
file output of grep -n and press , on the line you want to visit.)

Diomidis
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