Undocumented ex/vi options
Dave Decot
decot at hpisod2.HP.COM
Mon Feb 29 08:39:35 AEST 1988
> Does anyone know what the "sourceany", "tagstack" and "timeout"
> options of ex/vi do? I have found "sourceany" and "timeout"
> in 4.3 BSD and "tagstack" only in Sun Unix 3.2. None of them
> are in the 4.3 BSD documentation. I haven't had a chance to
> look in the Sun docs.
Some guesses in order of certainty:
tagstack
Controls (whether there is a, the size of the?) stack of tags
in use. There are probably additional commands called
:push and :pop. :push is used like :tag, except that
it also pushes the most recently used tag position onto
the top of the tag stack. :pop pops the tag stack and restores
the top tag position.
timeout
Controls whether multi-character input sequences are
converted to their mapping (see :map and :map!)?
sourceany
Controls whether vi/ex will read .exrc in the current directory?
Dave Decot
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