Shell Programming and Scripting

I got a lot of M$ .doc files converted to text that I got to edited.

Can you map EX commands into your .vimrc?

I use alot of them regularly but I get sick of typing them. I would like to map them to function keys <F3>, <F4>, <F5> and such.

I got this entry in my .vimrc to work:

Code:

map <F3> 1d

but this one doesn't work:

Code:

map <F4> $d

These don't work either:

Code:

map <F5> %s/^$/@/
map <F6> ggVGJ
map <F7> %s/@/\r\r/g|%s/^ //|%s/  / /g|%s/  / /g

I think it is the metacharacters that are tripping me up.

also "ggVGJ" is a VISUAL command, not an EX command. Can that be mapped?

I may be going about this the wrong way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Don't forget the : if your are defining line-mode commands and put ctrl-M on the end (blue ^M is entered as ctrl-v ctrl-m).

Code:

map <F4> :$d^M
map <F5> :%s/^$/@/^M
map <F7> :%s/@/\r\r/g^M:%s/^ //^M:%s/ / /g^M:%s/ / /g^M

Note F6 worked fine for me (join whole document to 1 line)

awesome! that worked great! much thanks