Comments in .exrc?

Chris Riley 201 564-2516 crr at cbnewsm.att.com
Fri May 3 07:25:38 AEST 1991


In article <26748 at adm.brl.mil> RSS%CALSTATE.bitnet at vm.usc.edu (Richard S. Smith) writes:
>I suppose the underlying question is whether ex has a "comment" or
>"no-op" command.  There's none mentioned in my (Xenix) manuals.
 
>Richard Smith - RSS at CALSTATE.BITNET

Vi/ex will ignore lines in the .exrc file that start with the double quote
character (").  You can't have blank lines though.
-- 
Chris Riley            chris.riley at attbl.att.com



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