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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how do you get modeline(s) to work under vi?
Message-ID: <4823@solo9.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Dec 89 16:42:03 GMT
References: <493@hades.OZ> <1989Dec17.174535.22577@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1989Dec17.174535.22577@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
\...  The commands must be in the first and/or last 5 lines in the file,
\prefixed by "[ev][xi]:" [...]

There must be a leading space/tab in the prefix.
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