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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.234347.9085@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 23:43:47 GMT
References: <2640@wtkatz.oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <2640@wtkatz.oakhill.UUCP> by chinds@oakhill.UUCP (Chris Hinds):
+---------------
| 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.
+---------------

If I recall correctly, "modeline" controls the message shown by the ^G
command.  (It may be related to other comands as well.  Unfortunately,
"modeline" isn't an option in the Xenix vi, so I can't check.)  In any case,
it is unrelated to "showmode".

The "showmode" option only exists in the most recent versions of vi (System V
Release 3, 4.3BSD).

++Brandon
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