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From: kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Capturing output of ":set" and others
Summary: Want to capture the output of various ":" commands
Keywords: vi, colon (":") commands
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.205249.16530@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 91 20:52:49 GMT
Sender: kapil@zaphod.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago
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Is there a way to capture tha output of the ":set" command?
This would make it easier to set up options for "vi" and then
save this to the ".exrc" file. It woul also make it possible to
write paragraph "fill" type commands that do not depend on a particular
terminal width. I suppose one could think of other applications.

Kapil Paranjape
e-mail:kapil@zaphod.uchicago.edu