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From: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org>
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Subject: Re: vi -- bug, feature, or misconfiguration?
To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:24:18 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9607211933.AA07797@hamlet.lanl.gov.lanl.gov> from "Charlie Sorsby" at Jul 21, 96 01:33:57 pm
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R and find that vi won't read either .exrc
> or .nexrc in my home directory.  As a work-around, I've enabled
> reading the initialization file in the cwd but it's a pain to have
> to create sucha a file in every directory from which I may want to
> run vi.


	I think the answer to both of these is probably in 
	your EXINIT environment variable.


	Look for that in your vi man pages.

Jim Dennis,
Starshine Technical Services