zzapper wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:29:22 -0600, Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
