can vi/ex source beginning of text on startup?
Tony L. Hansen
hansen at pegasus.UUCP
Sun Dec 2 08:53:17 AEST 1984
< I've noticed something similar when editing my sys file for readnews.
< Vi gives a complaint along the lines of "net: bad command". One of
< these days I'll track it down....
I believe that the pattern that vi/ex is looking for is
... [ve][ix]: ...
meaning that any of vi:, ex:, ei: or vx: would signal the beginning of the
command line. Since you exchange news with qusavx, you have a line in your
sys file which begins with
qusavx:net,
hence the message about "net: bad command" from vi/ex.
Tony Hansen
pegasus!hansen
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