eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (10/23/89)
Could someone post an example .exrc file? I've never seen what one looks like and I haven't (in all of 5 minutes) figured out how to set options that don't cause a warning to be flashed for .05 seconds about how these options don't exist.
IA80001@MAINE.BITNET (George Newell) (10/30/89)
Below is a copy of my .exrc file. set showmode # Setting showmode has the editor tell me what input mode I am in. set nomesg # Setting nomesg prevents incoming msgs so I don't get interrupted. # This resets to previous setting when you exit the editor. set hardtabs=4 # Setting hardtabs to 4 means when I hit TAB key, my indentation is 4. set tabstops=4 # Setting tabstops is similar to hardtabs. set report=3 # Setting report=3 means any change of 3 or more lines is reported to me. set autoindent # Setting autoindent means that next line of input indents to same level # as the current line. This is good for structured programming. set readonly # Setting this defaults program mode to Read Only. I can still write to # the file but I must use the :w! command and then :q separately. # This prevents accidentally writing to the file when I didn't want to. set shiftwidth=4 # Setting this tells me how many spaces back I go when doing a backtab. set nowrapscan # Setting this tells editor to stop all searches at the end of the file # instead of wrapping around to the beginning of file. #NOTE: you should delete all # lines as I found my .exrc file wouldn't # work with them included. ******************** George Newell IA80001@MAINE.BITNET ********************
sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders) (10/31/89)
>#NOTE: you should delete all # lines as I found my .exrc file wouldn't ># work with them included. Use the double quote character like this: " beware the modeline my son, " with macros that bite and claws that catch. set modeline set terse ai sw=4 aw wa redraw optimize "set wm=10 ic I found it annoying at first that it wasn't the "standard" (and I use the term loosely, as do all computer manufacturers :-) character "#". -- sanders
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (10/31/89)
As quoted from <2238IA80001@MAINE> by IA80001@MAINE.BITNET (George Newell): +--------------- | set hardtabs=4 | # Setting hardtabs to 4 means when I hit TAB key, my indentation is 4. | | set tabstops=4 | # Setting tabstops is similar to hardtabs. +--------------- "hardtabs" means that the terminal has tabs set every N spaces. "tabstops" means that ex/vi should treat a tab as N spaces. The difference is that "hardtabs" tells ex/vi when to use a tab to position the cursor when writing to the terminal screen; it does *not* affect the meaning of a tab in a file. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery: allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp *(comp.sources.misc mail to comp-sources-misc[-request]@backbone.site, please)* *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)* >>> Shall we try for comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac next, Richard? <<<
ecarroll@vax1.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) (11/09/89)
In article <PCG.89Nov1163541@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > > Bottom line: leave alone hardtabs and tabstops, and set shiftwidth to > the indentation you like, and use ^T and ^D in input mode to indent, not > the physical tab key. This is fine, but given that TAB is a nice big convenient key on most keyboards (much more so than ^T), is there any way to remap TAB to ^T in input mode? The obvious "map! ^V^I ^V^T" doesn't work (the ^I is echoed as a real tab, and treated as white space). -- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived until INTER: ecarroll@vax1.tcd.ie | you've died in MUD!" UUCP: {..uunet}!mcvax!ukc!vax1.tcd.ie!ecarroll | -- Richard Bartle