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From: bzs@xenna (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: Weird problem with vi... "Not that many lines in buffer"
Keywords: vi, bug
Message-ID: <3820@encore.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 03:42:24 GMT
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Reply-To: bzs@xenna (Barry Shein)
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In-reply-to: mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)


In GNU emacs you can also put

	(setq inhibit-local-variables t)

in your .emacs file which causes it to prompt you before executing any
embedded local stuff. I think it's a good idea and should be in vi/ex
if it isn't, that's dangerous stuff otherwise, particularly if su'd.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||