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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with regular command creation for editor vi Post 302998676 by jim mcnamara on Monday 5th of June 2017 09:53:05 PM
Old 06-05-2017
You gave us no details. Makes it hard to help you.

An overview of what you want:
.exrc is a setup file for vi, where you define keystrokes to be macros.
Create the macros you need in the .exrc file in your home directory.

Here are examples of how to do that:
my .exrc

Now you need to tell us what exactly you mean by 'regular expression from string'
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