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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:32:40 -0400
From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com>
To: "William O. Yates" <hackware@tru2life.net>
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Subject: Re: vi secure
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On 4/20/08, William O. Yates <hackware@tru2life.net> wrote:
> Recently started using vi macros.
>
>  When attempting to use one which accessed the external shell, got the following message:
>
>  "The ! command is not supported when the secure edit option is set."
>

Are you running vi as root?  I believe that will automatically set secure mode.

-Ben Kaduk