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diff --git a/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/edit/edittut.ms b/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/edit/edittut.ms index 6a1835769e5..2ec9bf143a6 100644 --- a/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/edit/edittut.ms +++ b/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/edit/edittut.ms @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: edittut.ms,v 1.6 2004/02/09 21:09:10 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: edittut.ms,v 1.7 2004/02/20 19:56:53 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ Reading additional files (r)\ \ \ 21 Writing parts of the buffer\ \ \ 21 Recovering files\ \ \ 21 Other recovery techniques\ \ \ 21 +Options, set, and editor startup files\ \ \ 22 Further reading and other information\ \ \ 22 .in -.5i .sp @@ -2215,6 +2216,84 @@ command. After fixing the damaged buffer, you can again write the file to disk. .SH +Options, set, and editor startup files +.PP +The editor has a set of options, some of which have been mentioned above. +The most useful options are given in the following table. +.PP +The options are of three kinds: numeric options, string options, and +toggle options. You can set numeric and string options by a statement +of the form +.DS +\fBset\fR \fIopt\fR\fB=\fR\fIval\fR +.DE +and toggle options can be set or unset by statements of one of the forms +.DS +\fBset\fR \fIopt\fR +\fBset\fR \fBno\fR\fIopt\fR +.DE +.KF +.TS +lb lb lb lb +l l l a. +Name Default Description +_ +autoindent noai Supply indentation automatically +autowrite noaw Automatic write before \fB:n\fR, \fB:ta\fR, \fB^^\fR, \fB!\fR +ignorecase noic Ignore case in searching +.\" lisp nolisp \fB( { ) }\fR commands deal with S-expressions +list nolist Tabs print as ^I; end of lines marked $ +magic magic . [ and * are special in scans +number nonu Lines prefixed with line numbers +report report=5 Number of line which editor reports after changes. +shiftwidth sw=8 Shift distance for <, > and \fB^D\fP and \fB^T\fR +term $TERM The kind of terminal you are using. +.TE +.KE +These statements can be placed in your EXINIT in your environment, +or given while you are running +.I ex +by typing them at the \fB:\fR prompt and following them with a \s-2CR\s0. +.PP +You can get a list of all options which you have changed by the +command \fB:set\fR\s-2CR\s0, or the value of a single option by the +command \fB:set\fR \fIopt\fR\fB?\fR\s-2CR\s0. +A list of all possible options and their values is generated by +\fB:set all\fP\s-2CR\s0. +Set can be abbreviated \fBse\fP. +Multiple options can be placed on one line, e.g. +\fB:se ai aw nu\fP\s-2CR\s0. +.PP +Options set by the \fBset\fP command only last +while you stay in the editor. +It is common to want to have certain options set whenever you +use the editor. +This can be accomplished by creating a list of commands +which are to be run every time you start up \fIex\fP. +For example: +.DS +\fBset\fP ai ic report=1 +.DE +sets the options \fIautoindent\fP, \fIignorecase\fP, and \fIreport\fP +(to the value of 1). +This string should be placed in the variable EXINIT in your environment. +If you use the shell \fIcsh\fP, +put this line in the file +.I .login +in your home directory: +.DS I +setenv EXINIT 'set ai ic report=1' +.DE +If you use the standard shell \fIsh\fP, +put these lines in the file +.I .profile +in your home directory: +.DS +export EXINIT='set ai ic report=1' +.DE +Of course, the particulars of the line would depend on which options +you wanted to set. +.SH Further reading and other information .PP These lessons are intended to introduce you to the editor @@ -2330,6 +2409,7 @@ non-printing characters, 10 ``Not an editor command'' (message), 6 ``Not that many lines in buffer'' (message), 18 number (nu) command, 11 +options, 22 password, 5 period (\|.\|), 11, 17 plus (+), 17 |