Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!encore!boykin
From: boykin@encore.UUCP (Joe Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: tag files in VI
Message-ID: <2991@encore.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 14:36:26 GMT
References: <2775@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <488@desert.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: boykin@encore.UUCP (Joe Boykin)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <488@desert.megatest.UUCP> sudweeks@megatest.UUCP (Bruce Sudweeks) writes:
>I seems to have a problem in setting more than about 4 tag files in my EXINIT
>environment variable. I't seems that VI will only except an option string that
>is less than 80 characters long. If it is longer, I get this error message:
>
>	String too long in option assignment
>
>My EXINIT variable looks like this:
>
>	setenv EXINIT   "set tags=tags\ $home/c\ $home/d\ $home/l\ $home/r showmatch redraw | set ai | set sh=$shell"
>
>I'm running UNIX on a SUN 3. Can any one give me an idea on this problem..
>

The length of the EXINIT string isn't the problem.  The problem is that the
string options have a finite length.  Standard BSD has a limit of 64 (63?)
characters.

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Joe Boykin
Encore Computer Corp

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