Re: Automatically truncating signatures
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:39:03PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2007-04-07, Michael Pobega <pobega@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:35:41AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 the mental interface of
> > > Michael Pobega told:
> > >
> > > >I'm using Vim as my text editor and I've yet to figure out a good way
> > > >to automatically truncate everything below the signature line (----)
> > > >when I reply to a message.
> > > >
> > > >I'd like to do this because I'd like to start using a signature in my
> > > >messages, and having to get rid of all of the signatures and automated
> > > >mailing list messages on every message manually is a bit irritating.
> > >
> > > Deletes everything from cursor line position till the last --
> > > (<dash><dash><blank>):
> > > map ,ds :.;/^-- $/d<CR>O<home>-- <ESC><right>d<End>I<CR><CR><UP><UP>
> > >
> > > Elimar
> > >
> >
> > I don't understand how to use that. I put it in my .vimrc and it's not
> > working, I tried:
> >
> > (-- ):<stuff>
> > -- :<stuff>
> > :<stuff>
> >
> > But none of it works right. Am I putting it in the wrong place?
>
> All you need is <stuff>. His "(<dash><dash><blank>):" was a
> parenthetical clarification of his preceding word, "-- ", so that
> you knew that a proper signature delimiter is just that: two dashes
> followed by a single space.
>
> To execute his macro after defining it in your .vimrc, just type
>
> ,ds
>
> HTH,
> Gary
>
Thanks, I got it working!
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