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From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: MAJOR BUG (Mark Horton's reply)
Message-ID: <7161@unc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 23:48:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 29 23:48:54 1984
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Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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One tolerable solution would be to have a toggle option that
activates/deactivates the mode line scanning.  The default should probably
be "off".

Another solution would be to look, not in the file itself, but in a file
consisting completely of vi commands.   Conceptually, there would be some
function modefile such that if modefile(filename) = modfilename, modfilename
is the name of a file which is read in (like a .exrc file) when the editor
is called on filename.  If modfilename is not found, then nothing is read,
of course.  One good modefile would be simply to prepend a period.
--
Tim Maroney, The Censored Hacker
mcnc!unc!tim (USENET), tim.unc@csnet-relay (ARPA)

All opinions expressed herein are completely my own, so don't go assuming
that anyone else at UNC feels the same way.