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From: poole@ut-emx.UUCP (Steve Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: How to put vi into 132 column mode?
Message-ID: <2151@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 18:06:55 GMT
Organization: UT Center for Space Research, Austin TX
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Keywords: vi 132 column


Lazer Danzinger asked about putting vi into 132 column mode.
 
Eric Koldinger suggested setting up the following alias:

alias wvi 'stty cols 132; vi \!\*; stty cols 80'

Henk Boetzkes suggested setting up the following alias:

alias wi 'setenv TERM vt100-w ; echo "^[[?3h" ; vi \!\!:* ; setenv TERM vt100 ; echo "^[[?3l" '
                                       ^                                               ^
                                       |_______________________________________________|
                                           |
                                           |
                                           Control [


Neither of these worked for me.  But I was able to figure out
something that did work.  I set the following alias.

alias viw 'stty cols 132; echo "^[[?3h"; vi \!* ; echo "^[[?3l";stty cols 80'

I had trouble getting the Control [ into a file.  Vi wouldn't
let me just type it in, and typing a \ before typing the
Control [ didn't work.  I finally got it into a file by giving
the command

echo "^[[?3h" > temp1

where ^[ is Control [

That got in into the file temp1.  Then I could use it to
create the alias command, which I put in my .cshrc file in my
login directory.
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