sudweeks@megatest.UUCP (Bruce Sudweeks) (04/28/88)
I seems to have a problem in setting more than about 4 tag files in my EXINIT environment variable. I't seems that VI will only except an option string that is less than 80 characters long. If it is longer, I get this error message: String too long in option assignment My EXINIT variable looks like this: setenv EXINIT "set tags=tags\ $home/c\ $home/d\ $home/l\ $home/r showmatch redraw | set ai | set sh=$shell" I'm running UNIX on a SUN 3. Can any one give me an idea on this problem.. -Bruce- { sun, pyramid } sudweeks@megatest
boykin@encore.UUCP (Joe Boykin) (04/29/88)
In article <488@desert.megatest.UUCP> sudweeks@megatest.UUCP (Bruce Sudweeks) writes: >I seems to have a problem in setting more than about 4 tag files in my EXINIT >environment variable. I't seems that VI will only except an option string that >is less than 80 characters long. If it is longer, I get this error message: > > String too long in option assignment > >My EXINIT variable looks like this: > > setenv EXINIT "set tags=tags\ $home/c\ $home/d\ $home/l\ $home/r showmatch redraw | set ai | set sh=$shell" > >I'm running UNIX on a SUN 3. Can any one give me an idea on this problem.. > The length of the EXINIT string isn't the problem. The problem is that the string options have a finite length. Standard BSD has a limit of 64 (63?) characters. ---- Joe Boykin Encore Computer Corp UUCP: encore!boykin ARPA: boykin@multimax.arpa