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From: sylvan@boulder.UUCP (Sylvan Ruud)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: RE: NEW vi feature???
Message-ID: <169@boulder.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Apr-84 19:50:46 EST
Article-I.D.: boulder.169
Posted: Sun Apr 15 19:50:46 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 07:07:58 EST
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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I agree about this "feature".  As a matter of fact, we have a user name
of "evi" - take a look at the syntax of a password file....  it just so
happened that she was within the top 5 lines of the file, so whenever
someone did a 'vipw', we got the message 'JJ: Not an editor command'.
Lemme see, if her password just happened to get encrypted as evi:1,$d|wq
would that blow away the password file????

fun times.

sylvan ruud

{ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!kpno | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!kpno}
			!hao!boulder!sylvan

for those of you who have not run into this problem yet, there is an extension
to vi/ex so that if there is a character sequence of 'vi:' or 'ex:' in the
first or last 5 lines of a file, these editors will try to execute what it
thinks are commands immediately following the :.  

This is "documented" in the 4.2 release - see /usr/src/ucb/ex/ex.news