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From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff@aonix.co.uk>
To: "zzapper" <david@tvis.co.uk>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
References: <hd7apvs8lblus6rtdkasan4srul08ppu3e@4ax.com> <3F9526A2.3080406@etr-usa.com> <bo9apv8n5u19o6roqrcmpfgp26h426a93t@4ax.com>
Subject: Re: Command Line Editting in VI mode
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:08:12 +0100
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zzapper wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:29:22 -0600, Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >zzapper wrote:
> >
> >> is there any way of defaulting to Vi mode? Or any other advice?
> >
> >Start it via 'ex' when you know you want the line editor.  That's the 
> >line editor underlying vi.  Start it via 'vi' only when you want visual 
> >editing.
> 
> PMI (Pardon My Ignorance) How do I do that?

/usr/bin/ex should be a symbolic link to vim.  When vim is invoked
as ex, it starts in command line mode.

So just $ ex <your file>

-- Cliff


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