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From: simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Simon Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Undocumented vi feature
Message-ID: <491@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 17:51:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: its63b.491
Posted: Sun Jun 21 17:51:53 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 03:45:42 EDT
References: <219@ausmelb.OZ>
Reply-To: simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Simon Brown)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Edinburgh University
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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?
>

What you do is you put lines containing things like
	vi: commands
or
	ex: commands
in the first five (or last 5) lines of the file. It doesn't matter whether
you use vi or ex. The "vi:" or "ex:" needn't be at the start of the line,
so that things like
	/*
	 * vi: set nonumber nolist
	 */
comments in your C-code will work.
	
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