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From: Stephen Kinzler <kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: mapping = to ^D in vi
Message-ID: <29399@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 04:30:52 GMT
Sender: Stephen Kinzler <kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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Written by meyering@cs.utexas.edu in news:comp.editors
---------- "mapping = to ^D in vi" ----------
> I would like to cut down on the size of my environment.  One good way
> would be to use a .exrc file instead of EXINIT.  The only problem I've
> found is that I can't map any character to <CTRL-D> in the file, whereas
> it works fine in the environment.  In the file, ^D appears to be
> interpreted as EOF (in the first example below, I get a "missing rhs" error.

I don't know of anyway to get the ^D interpreted correctly in the .exrc
file -- it'll probably have to go in the EXINIT string.  You can still
have an .exrc file if you source it from the EXINIT string, too.  For
example, here's mine:

setenv EXINIT "so $HOME/.exrc|map!  ldei|map!  |map!  "

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