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From: ok@mudla.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Keywords: vi modeline showmode
Message-ID: <2746@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 18 Nov 89 16:04:12 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl> <13836@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1253@kuling.UUCP>
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In article <1253@kuling.UUCP>, irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes:
> In article <2640@wtkatz.oakhill.UUCP> chinds@oakhill.UUCP (Chris Hinds) writes:
> >This is news to me.  I noticed that my Sun3 vi has 'modeline' but
> >no 'showmode.'  When I set modeline on, nothing appreciable changes.

> We tried the 'vi' modeline on our SPARCstation 1 and found that the modeline
> does not work in SunOS 4.0.3.

Excuse my confusion, but I thought the "modeline" option referred to picking
up commands out of a file, like -*- ... -*- in Emacs.  (These things are
lines which set the editor mode the way you want it for that file, hence the
name.)