Trojan horse FIX for Rnmail and Pnews
Gordon Burditt
gordon at sneaky.TANDY.COM
Wed Dec 7 16:07:20 AEST 1988
>Here are the context diffs to fix Rnmail and Pnews.
>Larry Wall, do you copy?
[Condensed down guts of patch follow:]
< ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-$defeditor}} $tmpart $oldart
> ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-$defeditor}} '+set nomodeline' $tmpart $oldart
Isn't this fix more than a little vi-specific? If EVERYONE at your site
uses vi, fine, but I think it breaks attempts to use any editor other
than vi. /bin/ed merrily edits the file '+set nomodeline'. Then Pnews
or Rnmail work with the unmodified file. Emacs will probably do something
strange with it also. Further, not all versions of vi even have a
"nomodeline" option.
Gordon L. Burditt
...!texbell!sneaky!gordon
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