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From: sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Keywords: vi modeline showmode
Message-ID: <3056@cello.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 20:48:16 GMT
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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.
>
>Anybody have any experience with 'modeline' on the Sun? 

modeline verymuchnotequal showmode.

From my .exrc:
    " beware the modeline my son,
    " with macros that bite and claws that catch.
    set modeline

With modeline set vi will look for lines like (from my .Xdefaults):
      vi:map q :w!^V^M:!xrdb -nocpp -load ~/.Xdefaults^V^M^M:q^V^M:
in files you are editing and execute them.  Thus when I 'q' out of my
.Xdefaults file it runs xrdb for me.  See the manual for details.

I'm surprised that sun vi doesn't have showmode.  I could have sworn it
did when I was using them.

-- sanders


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