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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Keywords: vi modeline showmode
Message-ID: <1253@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 14:31:14 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl> <13836@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <2640@wtkatz.oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <2640@wtkatz.oakhill.UUCP> chinds@oakhill.UUCP (Chris Hinds) writes:
>ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
>
>>Put 'set showmode' in my .exrc, the vi can show me what mode I am in. I am
>>in INSERT MODE now. :-) At least this works on our SYS V machine. Maybe you
>>have a broken 'vi'. 
>
>This is news to me.  I noticed that my Sun3 vi has 'modeline' but
>no 'showmode.'  When I set modeline on, nothing appreciable changes.
>
>Anybody have any experience with 'modeline' on the Sun? 


We tried the 'vi' modeline on our SPARCstation 1 and found that the modeline
does not work in SunOS 4.0.3.  We have many different HP9000 boxes and on all
modern ones the HP-UX handles the modeline nicely.  So, it seems that the Sun
'vi' is broken. In fact, Sun's 'vi' is in many respects very inferior to the
HP-UX 'vi' which supports 8 bits (national characters, displayed correctly!),
setting of the timeout length in milliseconds, plus a few other things
absent in Sun's 'vi'.


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