Question about vi

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#3298

Author: Cel
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 00:00

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Can anyone remember me how to get the lines automatically numeroted when
I open a file
using vi ? It's a file u must create if i remember ...

Thanks for your help
Reply to : cb8cfe@isis.sunderland.ac.uk

Re: Question about vi

#3299

Author: Khem Chander
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 00:00

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In you .exrc file in $HOME directory you need to have a statement "se nu"
for this to happen.

thanks,
khem chande 
kchande@yahoo.com

Cel <cb8cfe@isis.sunderland.ac.uk> wrote in article
<373EDD56.45074639@isis.sunderland.ac.uk>...
> Can anyone remember me how to get the lines automatically numeroted when
> I open a file
> using vi ? It's a file u must create if i remember ...
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Reply to : cb8cfe@isis.sunderland.ac.uk
> 
> 
>

Re: Question about vi

#3300

Author: Charles Demas
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:00

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In article <373EDD56.45074639@isis.sunderland.ac.uk>,
Cel  <cb8cfe@isis.sunderland.ac.uk> wrote:
>Can anyone remember me how to get the lines automatically numeroted when
>I open a file
>using vi ? It's a file u must create if i remember ...


I use tcsh, and I set my evnironment variable EXINIT like this in my 
.tcshrc file:


# vi startup stuff
  setenv EXINIT 'map g G\
  set ignorecase showmatch showmode nu ai shiftwidth=4'


The nu does the numbering, the other things do other things I 
find useful.

You could also do it manually after entering vi by using the

:set nu

command while in the command mode.  To turn off numbering use

:set nonu


Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

--
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Re: Question about vi

#3301

Author: Adam C. Emerson
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:00

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[Followup-To set to comp.editors]

In comp.unix.programmer Cel <cb8cfe@isis.sunderland.ac.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone remember me how to get the lines automatically numeroted when
> I open a file
> using vi ? It's a file u must create if i remember ...

The command is :set nu you can put it in your .exrc file..

comp.editors might be better for this sort of thing.


-- 
Adam C. Emerson                              aemerson@atdot.org
http://www.calvin.edu/~aemers19/
Preach from it unto the Righteous, that they may renounce their
ways and repent.                        -- Honest Book of Truth

Re: Question about vi

#3302

Author: Robert Butram
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 00:00

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Make the file $HOME/.exrc with your initial commands

--
Robert Butram
www.butram.com
www.aristotle.net/~rbutram

The opinion expressed here
may NOT match the reality experienced by others!

Cel wrote in message <373EDD56.45074639@isis.sunderland.ac.uk>...
>Can anyone remember me how to get the lines automatically numeroted when
>I open a file
>using vi ? It's a file u must create if i remember ...
>
>Thanks for your help
>Reply to : cb8cfe@isis.sunderland.ac.uk
>
>

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