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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi `ei:' (`modeline')
Keywords: vi passwd lookout
Message-ID: <13@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 22:42:20 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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> Another vendor that supplies this "crippled" vi is AT&T.  The System V
> Release 2.0 source tape, straight from AT&T, which we have here does not
> have this hell-spawned modelines feature.

S5R3's "vi", as I remember, has modelines.  Both it and the 4.3BSD
version have a flag to disable it (although I think the flag's name
differs slightly between the two versions, sigh).