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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: What does novice do in vi?
Message-ID: <4648@ski.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 28 Nov 89 21:33:49 GMT
References: <1756@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1756@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
\What does the vi set option 'novice' do?  My vi comes up nonovice.
\You can not set novice as you get "vice: No such option - 'set all'
\gives all option values".  [...]

If you invoke vi (ex) as `edit', the option will probably be turned on and
the `report' option would be set to a low value (2) and the `magic' option
would be turned off.
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