Here's how to stop shell escapes from vi

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jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

> matter what SHELL is set to when vi is started (I don't know whether or not v
> actually goes ahead and changes the environment variable, or only stores the
> shell to use in variable somewhere, but that's an irrelevant distinction,
> since the end result is pretty much the same).

 The vi that ISC sends out with 2.2 seems to do that later rather than
the former, for what that is worth...
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