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From: mayoff@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Mayoff)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: "set modelines" in vi
Message-ID: <1006@langtry.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 18:28:48 GMT
References: <9012051559.AA01923@samadams.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <9012051559.AA01923@samadams.Princeton.EDU> tr@SAMADAMS.PRINCETON.EDU (Tom Reingold) writes:
>I discovered the "modelines" feature of vi.  It's really great.  In my

I don't have an answer to the question you asked, but let me point out
something.

Let's I create a file containing this:

:ex:!rm -Rf $HOME/*

(I think that's what the modeline looks like, right?) 

Suppose you edit the file.  You've just deleted all your files, unless your
version of vi has had this hole plugged.
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/_  rob		<mayoff@cs.utexas.edu>
 /_ Fun things to do with UNIX (#72 in a series):
  / cat /dev/zero > /dev/null


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