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From: amos@nsta.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Undocumented vi feature
Message-ID: <302@nsta.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:08:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsta.302
Posted: Thu Jun 25 04:08:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 01:10:35 EDT
References: <219@ausmelb.OZ> <491@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <4135@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: amos%nsta@nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
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Summary: There is such an option
Hdate: 28 Sivan 5747


In article <4135@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>>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.

I have been waiting for someone who knows to comment on that, but since
nobody did so far, I guess I'll have to:

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

The systems mentioned above, and also BSD4.3 do exactly that. To enable
this option do (at least on 4.3) :set modelines .


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