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From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin)
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Subject: Re: Comments in .exrc?
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Date: 2 May 91 20:10:58 GMT
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In article <26748@adm.brl.mil>, RSS%CALSTATE.bitnet@vm.usc.edu (Richard S. Smith) writes:
|> Here's an interesting one:  I'm looking for a way to selectively
|> comment out certain lines in my .exrc file.  The problem is that
|> vi leaves precious few keys left for remapping, so I need the
|> ability to turn the definitions on and off with as little fuss
|> as possible.
|> 
|> If I try a # at the beginning of a line, I get some error message,
|> and the whole rest of the file gets bypassed.  I could exploit this
|> as a feature, but I really don't want to.
|> 
|> I suppose the underlying question is whether ex has a "comment" or
|> "no-op" command.  There's none mentioned in my (Xenix) manuals.


Fortunately, it's not as "interesting" a problem as you think.
Vi/Ex use the double quote as a comment character.  All characters
to the end of the line are ignored.  For example:

	set ic sm ai
	" comment
	set wm=0 report=1


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Joseph Boykin
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