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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Undocumented vi feature
Message-ID: <4135@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 13:02:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 13:02:52 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 05:12:49 EDT
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: vi/ex commands in a text file

>What you do is you put lines containing things like
>	vi: commands

Well, both SUN UN*X and DEC ULTRIX disable this (mis)feature in their
binary distributions.  Just as well, in my opinion, since this can cause
unexpected behavior when editing a file.

Perhaps this behavior should be settable in the .exrc (or EXRC), with the
default OFF.