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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Undocumented ex/vi options
Message-ID: <14020010@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 88 22:39:35 GMT
References: <1160@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> Does anyone know what the "sourceany", "tagstack" and "timeout"
> options of ex/vi do?  I have found "sourceany" and "timeout"
> in 4.3 BSD and "tagstack" only in Sun Unix 3.2.  None of them
> are in the 4.3 BSD documentation.  I haven't had a chance to
> look in the Sun docs.

Some guesses in order of certainty:
    
    tagstack

	 Controls (whether there is a, the size of the?) stack of tags
	 in use.  There are probably additional commands called
	 :push and :pop.  :push is used like :tag, except that
	 it also pushes the most recently used tag position onto
	 the top of the tag stack.  :pop pops the tag stack and restores
	 the top tag position.

    timeout
	 Controls whether multi-character input sequences are
	 converted to their mapping (see :map and :map!)?

    sourceany
	 Controls whether vi/ex will read .exrc in the current directory?

Dave Decot
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