Re: [vile] Getting search result at top of screen - possible?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:29:16PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> Is it possible to get the result of a search in vile to appear at the
> top of the screen rather than in the middle?
> 
> I am using vile as a file viewer looking for the start of the block
> that I want to see by calling it as:-
> 
>     vile -s <string> <file>
> 
> but this means I have to scroll the page up a few lines to see as much
> of the 'useful' text as I can with the <string> at the top.

You could write a macro - since last fall's changes, "-s" is just a
wrapper for one of vile's built-in commands.  Then inside the macro,
you can manipulate the view as you want.

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