vi exrc behaviour has changed??!!

[Uwe Mager]

In article <16883 at watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth at 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.
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Jens-Uwe Mager
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