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From: danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: looking for way to show mode in vi on sun
Summary: set modeline is not same as set showmode; anybody ported Sys V vi to sun?
Message-ID: <445@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 89 04:17:01 GMT
References: <441@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <441@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, I wrote:
> 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 modeline doesn't do the same thing]

I have just been told that ":set modeline" enables a behavior in vi whereby
if the first or last five lines of a file being edited contains a space or
tab followed by "vi:" or "ex:" everything after that in the line is treated
as an editor command.  This is very different from ":set showmode", which I
was also told was not implemented in Berkeley vi.

Okay, the next thing I tried was to port the System V vi to the Sun4 (SUNOS
4.0.1).  It quickly began to look like a major hacking headache.  Simple
compilation under the so-called "System V universe" won't fly:  there are
things which are not #defined that are supposed to be #defined, things which
are not declared that are supposed to be declared, etc., etc., arrrrrrrgh!!!!

Has anyone out there ported the System V vi onto the Sun4 running SUNOS 4.0.1?
(Has anyone out there been crazy enough to TRY?!?)  If so could you please
tell me how you did it ?!?  Thankx......
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