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From: sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders)
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Subject: Re: What does novice do in vi?
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Date: 28 Nov 89 22:56:20 GMT
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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".  So I used my binary editor superzap
>to change novice to nevice,  but after setting nevice I couldn't
>detect any changes.  Anyone know what it's supposed to do?
When you invoke ex/vi as vedit it puts you in "novice" mode.

When novice is set you can only use the line editor mode.
I think it's just thrown in to confuse the novice :-)

-- sanders
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