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From: crr@cbnewsm.att.com (Chris Riley  (201) 564-2516)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Comments in .exrc?
Summary: "this is a comment
Message-ID: <1991May2.212538.13459@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 2 May 91 21:25:38 GMT
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In article <26748@adm.brl.mil> RSS%CALSTATE.bitnet@vm.usc.edu (Richard S. Smith) writes:
>I suppose the underlying question is whether ex has a "comment" or
>"no-op" command.  There's none mentioned in my (Xenix) manuals.
 
>Richard Smith - RSS@CALSTATE.BITNET

Vi/ex will ignore lines in the .exrc file that start with the double quote
character (").  You can't have blank lines though.
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Chris Riley            chris.riley@attbl.att.com