30.20 Multiple Editor Setup Files; Starting with a Search[This article shows vi , but the same thing will work for other editors that read a setup file when they start up. -JP] Like many people, I want different vi options set for writing a program than for working on a text file. Here's how I do it. Instead of putting mode lines ( 30.19 ) within each file, or writing extensions to the filenames ( 30.21 ) , I've got several different .exrc ( 30.6 ) startup files... one for each vi mode I'd like to use. I have aliases ( 10.2 ) that let me select the .exrc file I want. And I have vi aliased so that, when I start it up, it tells me which .exrc file is in use. Here are the lines (with comments) from my .cshrc ( 2.1 ) file (the CD-ROM has a set for Bourne-type shells):
The
EXSTAT
variable remembers which setup file has been stored in
the
.exrc
file. Also, because
you can't start
vi
with a search (
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