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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: vi:Too much macro text
Message-ID: <1991Mar09.003517.5155@convex.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 00:35:17 GMT
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From the keyboard of edp328j@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (3B Systems Support):
:
:pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes:
:
:> Having incorporated a lot of Tom Christiansen's macros (thanks Tom)
:> into my .exrc, I now find that when I start vi or source .exrc I get:
:>     Too much macro text
:
:A common cause of this is editing a file in $HOME when $HOME/.exrc
:exists - vi happily grabs .exrc twice (the one in $HOME and the one
:in the current working directory).

Crap.  I'd forgotten that one.  I fixed it in ours.  The ****ing Sun 
code gets this one wrong, too.  I guess on Suns you better use /bin/ed.

--tom