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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi `ei:' (`modeline')
Summary: Give to the Mothers' March Against Brain Bubbles
Keywords: vi passwd lookout
Message-ID: <1245@X.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 12:05:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: X.1245
References: <3394@dunkshot.mips.COM> <1235@cbnews.ATT.COM> <13215@hqda-ai.ARPA> <2146@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
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In article <2146@cuuxb.ATT.COM>, mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
> 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).

Alpha particles must have corrupted my mind at the time.  This was the state
that I intended to describe--no magic strings, no way of disabling the
misfeature.  Oops.

In article <8786@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>In article <2146@cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>-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.

And so amazing that it was just simply by removing code.

Actually, I am not at all amazed...
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