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From: mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Marc W. Mengel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi `ei:' (`modeline')
Keywords: vi passwd lookout
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Date: 27 Oct 88 18:44:26 GMT
References: <3394@dunkshot.mips.COM> <1235@cbnews.ATT.COM> <13215@hqda-ai.ARPA> <7052@ki4pv.uucp> <1221@X.UUCP>
Reply-To: mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel)
Organization: AT&T-DSD, System Engineering for Resellers, Lisle IL
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In article <1221@X.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
>>[Xenix omits the "set modeline" option, and executes ex:...: strings ]
>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.

Wait a minute... while it is true that AT&T vi/ex does not have
the "set modeline" command, it also does not interpred ex:...:
strings in the text of a file (i.e. you don't *need* the set
modeline command).   Of course, I looked at Sys.Vr.3, which is what
we are running here, Sys.Vr.2 might have inadvertently included that
"feature" when they ported from BSD...

>-- 
>John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101