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From: avr@cbnewsj.att.com (adam.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: bang problems in vi
Summary: stty in $ENV
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.032240.29834@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 20 Jul 90 03:22:40 GMT
References: <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes:
> Whenever I do a bang substitution within vi (eg, !!ls)
> on my 3b1, I get the appropriate substitution, with the following error
> message prepended to the text:
> stty: : Not a typewriter
> What's going on & how do I get rid of it?

Most likely, you are using ksh and do an stty, directly or indirectly,
in your $ENV, which is carried out whenever !! invokes ksh. To fix,
use something like the following in your $ENV:

case $- in *s* | *i* )
	# your interactive stuff, stty etc., goes here
;;
esac

				Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com