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From: frank@aaec.OZ (Frank Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: vi bug(feature?)
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 00:30:26 EDT
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> My standard shell is the /bin/csh.  When I try doing a any command
> with a name that needs to be shell expanded the editor calls the shell,
> but gets confused by the shell prompt and includes that in the file list.
> This is a pain when using the n command, but makes things like e ~/.signature
> impossible(at lease I don't no how to make it work.).
> I do not have source code.  I am running on a SUN 2/120 under Unix 4.2BSD(Sun
> release 2.00).

	The problem is probably caused by you unconditionally setting your
prompt in your `.cshrc'.  What happens is that when /bin/csh is invoked
by `vi' it does it in such a way that the prompt is undefined.   What you
need to do is test if it is defined before you set it, i.e.

if ($?prompt == 1) set prompt="my prompt[\!] "

That should fix it.

						Frank Crawford

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