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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Exrc file problem Post 302990611 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 29th of January 2017 08:06:20 AM
Old 01-29-2017
The map command works only in command mode, after you have typed the colon :

If your current map command worked from text input mode you would be typing text and all of a sudden the program would quit. Bad choice, if it worked.

To debug your .exrc file try starting ex because the error message from .exrc errors is only visible for a very short time. q! quits ex.

ab works only in text-input mode when the abbreviation or keystroke map you created is typed standalone - it has to be a word all by itself - no characters except space, tab, or return.

So your ab is okay, just a learning curve issue. Do not create an abbreviation of simple text that will take you out of text mode and do a force quit.
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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do rtl layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --encoding=ENCODING Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)
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