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From: lavallee@hawk.CS.ULowell.Edu (Warren J. Lavallee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Undocumented vi feature
Message-ID: <1410@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 00:30:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 00:30:33 1987
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Keywords: vi/ex commands in a text file

In article <219@ausmelb.OZ> dak@ausmelb.OZ (David Kruger) writes:
>A UNIX guru once told me that it is possible to somehow enter vi/ex commands at
>the top of a text file so that when you `vi' the file, the commands are
>executed.  Does anybody out there know how to do it?
>Dave Kruger

	If you put a line in the format:  (This worked on a BSD4.2 system
at my last job.  It does not work under Dynix 2.1.  I considered it a
bug anyways. :-) )

vi:commands
	or
ex:commands

	fairly near the top (I think it is 10 lines), vi will execute the
commands before you start editing the file.

vi:q!

	makes a file virtually uneditable via vi.


						Warren Lavallee
						lavallee@ulowell.{csnet,UUCP}