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From: chris@politik.UUCP (Christopher Seiwald)
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Subject: can vi/ex source beginning of text on startup?
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Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 18:54:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 10 18:54:10 1984
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I recall seeing a text file with ex commands at the beginning, e.g.

(some characters):set wrapmargin=10

It seemed like ex was meant to source the lines when starting up.
Does this work and is it documented?

Thanks.
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