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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Problem with stevie (V6.9) "vi" editor.
Message-ID: <9oy2T1w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 12 Dec 90 06:03:55 GMT
References: <39988@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) writes:

> 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.

Try including the 'set' command in the environment string. I had similar
problems until I looked over the source closely. My stevie will also
react to a LINES= statement in the environment, and simply set the
default number of lines. (why? I used the same binary on my bbs and my
main machine... )
--
Roy M. Silvernail |+|  roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu  |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE;
main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);}
"This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva  :--:  "...and I like it here!" -- me