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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi `ei:' (`modeline')
Message-ID: <350@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 05:03:41 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>-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).
>
>Hurray -- a "Berkeley bug" fixed by AT&T.

Not so fast, Doug.  It's more like a Berkeley misfeature that AT&T
hadn't picked up yet; S5R3 has it.