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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:29:22 -0600
From: Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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To: Cygwin-L <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Command Line Editting in VI mode
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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.


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