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From: msagen@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Morgen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Problem with stevie (V6.9) "vi" editor.
Keywords: stevie vi exinit
Message-ID: <2765a01b.3522@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 90 03:12:27 GMT
Organization: CalPoly SLO, CA
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brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU once said...
>I am having trouble getting stevie to read the exinit environment
>variable and initialize certain settings on startup. Does anyone
>have a solution for this? The manual page indicates that I should be 
>able to initialize certain things (se nu, for example) via this
>variable but I haven't been able to get it to work.

Had the same problem.  Probably not what you want to hear, but you can 
edit the source (available at wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors/msdos/editor as
stevi69s.zip -- and probably available other places as well), hard-code
the "set" variables, and recompile.  Kind of a pain, but it gets the job
done.



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Morgen Sagen  --  msagen@polyslo.calpoly.edu