how do you get modeline(s) to work under vi?

Tue Dec 19 03:42:03 AEST 1989

In article <1989Dec17.174535.22577 at NCoast.ORG> allbery at NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
\...  The commands must be in the first and/or last 5 lines in the file,
\prefixed by "[ev][xi]:" [...]

There must be a leading space/tab in the prefix.
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