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From:	"Cliff Hones" <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>
To:	"zzapper" <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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 AT etr-usa DOT 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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