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From: patkar@bromine.ecn.purdue.edu (The Silent Dodo)
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Subject: Changing mode before starting vi
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Date: 20 Aug 90 18:09:36 GMT
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  Having created enough confusion by asking the question
  about changing quadruple occrances to single ones, here
  is one more simple question.

  It seems that by default, vi creates files which are in
  mode 644.  Is there a way to change this default?  I have
  some directories which contain only simple executable scripts.
  While creating new files in this directory, it will be nice
  if the mode is automatically changed.  Also, in some other
  directories I would like the mode to be read-only.  You
  get what I mean!

  I can write a simple script like

  cp /dev/null $1
  chmod 700 $1
  vi $1

  But this looks clumsy.  Is there a better way than this?
  Probably there is some option you can set in your .exrc, but
  I could not find any such thing in the online help command.

  -- Anant
  (patkar@cn.ecn.purdue.edu)