Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: What does novice do in vi?
Message-ID: <1989Dec3.231312.13941@sq.sq.com>
Date: 3 Dec 89 23:13:12 GMT
References: <1756@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
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Dan Mercer (mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM) wrote:
>What does the vi set option 'novice' do?
I am not sure (it is only on System V.3 versions of vi, I think), but
it set if you are in edit, and not if you are in vi.

The man page for "edit" in V.3.2 notes that NOVICE is set to ON, and
you really can do
	:set novice
and
	:set nonovice
although I have no idea what they do either, as they are -- like most of
the ex :set options -- not discussed in the V.3 documentation (some of the
options are on the "ex" man page, but only a few).

It is a shame that the original vi documentation is not included, and a
bigger shame that it was not both included and kept up to date [0.5 :-)].

Lee
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