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From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: vi for power users
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Date: 9 Dec 90 23:14:35 GMT
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In article <joshi.660705889@m.cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>mayoff@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Mayoff) writes:
>>Since you're simply trying to reflow the paragraph, use the command
>>  !}fmt<RETURN>
>I tried to do this. I got a message that said that something like 
>"}fmt command not found".
>
>fmt in /usr/ucb which is in my search path set up in .cshrc. Any ideas
>why it does not work? I also tried "}!fmt" which does not work either.

This may happen if your .cshrc exits before the path is read.  Many
people put test of the form
 
if ( ! $?prompt ) then exit

or some variation thereof in their .cshrc to prevent unnecessary
overhead in executing commands which are not needed in a 
non-interactive subshell.  Make sure that your path is set *before* 
that test.

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