vi `ei:' (`modeline')

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Tue Oct 18 08:42:20 AEST 1988


> Another vendor that supplies this "crippled" vi is AT&T.  The System V
> Release 2.0 source tape, straight from AT&T, which we have here does not
> have this hell-spawned modelines feature.

S5R3's "vi", as I remember, has modelines.  Both it and the 4.3BSD
version have a flag to disable it (although I think the flag's name
differs slightly between the two versions, sigh). 



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