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From: dwm@fibercom.COM (David W. Minnich)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Vi and modeline interaction on Sun 4/330
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Date: 18 Jul 90 18:54:41 GMT
Organization: FiberCom, Inc., Roanoke, Virginia
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We recently got a Sun 4/330 at our site, and I've been noticing some strange
behavior in vi.  In my .exrc I set the modeline option to vi.  This allows
me to set file-specific defaults in vi by including a modeline at the bottom
of the file.  On our other systems this works fine.  On the 4/330, if a 
modeline is present in the file, then vi always thinks I've modified the file
whether I have or not.  (e.g. if I type "vi <filename>" followed immediately
by ":q", vi complains about "No write since last change").  The contents of the
modeline command appear to make no difference; everything I tried behaved the
same way.  We are running SunOS 4.1 on this machine.  Does anyone know what's
going on, and how to fix it?

As always, email to me and I'll summarize if warranted.
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