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From: danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: looking for way to show mode in vi on sun
Message-ID: <441@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 21:48:26 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Please skip this message if you have already seen it.
It appears that this didn't get out on my first try.

I am looking for a way in vi on the sun (sun3, sun4) to do what the System V
vi ":set showmode" command does, i.e., when a user is in a text modifica-
tion mode, display this fact in the lower right hand corner of the screen.
":set all" shows the seemingly promising "nomodeline", but when I
":set modeline" that doesn't seem to do anything (I still don't see
anything different when entering a text modification mode), although
":set" verifies that I have "modeline" set.  I could not find anything in
the manual that comes with the sun (either the vi manpage or the vi reference)
about the "modeline" option, so I don't know if I am using it correctly or
not, or what it is really supposed to do.  I want this feature to assist
novice "vi" users.

Thanks greatly in advance for any help or advice on the matter; please
send me email.
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Dan'l Levy                 UNIX(R) mail:  att!ttbcad!levy, att!cbnewsc!danl
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