MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

vi(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities vi(1)
list When this option is on, tabs are displayed as a control-I (ˆI) rather than being ex-
panded with blanks, and the ends of lines are indicated with a dollar sign ($).
The default is nolist.
magic When this option is off (nomagic), regular expression characters ˆ\and $ become
the only ones with special meanings. All other regular expression metacharacters
must be preceded by a backslash (\) to have their special meaning.
The default is magic.
maxbuffers
This is the number of K units (1024 bytes) of memory which is to be used for the edi-
tor buffers. These are allocated in units of 16K.
The default is maxbuffers=512, but if that is not available upon entry this is set
to the number actually obtained. At least 32K is needed. This is in addition to the
code and data space required by vi; this may be as much as 128K. Changing
maxbuffers has no effect.
mesg When this option is on, Ex allows others to use the write or talk commands to
write to your terminal while you are in visual mode. The command
mesg n
overrides this option (see mesg(1)).
The default value is mesg.
number, nu
When this option is on, line numbers are displayed to the left of the text being edited.
The default is nonumber.
paragraphs
This list of character pairs controls the movement between paragraphs in Vi mode.
Lines beginning with a period (.) followed by any pair of characters in the list are
paragraph boundaries (for example, .IP). Such lines are typically commands to text
formatters like nroff or troff.
The default is paragraphs="IPLPPPQPP LIpplpipbp""
prompt
When this option is on, Ex command mode prompts with a colon (:). (No prompts
are given if input is not being read from a terminal.)
The default is prompt.
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