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Article #685Re: vi exrc behaviour has changed??!!
From: Uwe Mager
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1988 20:41
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1988 20:41
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In article <16883@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes: >Actually, I'd like to see the current behaviour of .exrc changed >to yet a third possibility. > >VI should not look in the current directory. >It should look in the directory containing the file being edited. > >If I have a file with non-standard tabstops, I'll put the "set tabstop=" >command into a .exrc file in that file's directory. I recommend putting a line like this into your file: vi:set tabstop=4|set sw=4: Vi will look for such lines in the first or last five lines of the file being edited. PS: This is also a nice feature for attacks if you have an ! command in the last five lines. -- Jens-Uwe Mager jum@focus.UUCP || jum@cosmo.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!jum From: jum@cosmo.UUCP (Uwe Mager) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: vi exrc behaviour has changed??!! Keywords: EXINIT .exrc CWD Message-ID: <634@cosmo.UUCP> Date: 15 Feb 88 20:41:20 GMT References: <329@ttrde.UUCP> <3728@whuts.UUCP> <16883@watmath.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: jum@cosmo.UUCP (Jens-Uwe Mager(sysop)) Organization: CosmoNet Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, D-300 Hannover, West Germany Lines: 23 Posted: Mon Feb 15 21:41:20 1988