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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: MICROPORT BUGS not yet listed
Message-ID: <635@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 18:36:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.635
Posted: Thu Sep  3 18:36:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 22:43:25 EDT
References: <939@minnow.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 16
Summary: A possible fix.

> 4. The .exrc file (used by vi) should be placed in the home directory.  Under
>   microport (alias macrobug), if this file is not in the current directory it
>   is not used by the editor. (this is a real pain in the a__ since you have
>   to have a copy of .exrc in every directory you edit in)

Some Unixes have this "feature". The solution is to

	setenv EXINIT "so $HOME/.exinit"

And then move your .exrc to .exinit.

The logic behind this feature, by the way, is that you can have a seperate
.exrc with different macros in different places.
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