Command Line Editting in VI mode

Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com
Tue Oct 21 13:26:00 GMT 2003


zzapper wrote:

> is there any way of defaulting to Vi mode? Or any other advice?

Start it via 'ex' when you know you want the line editor.  That's the 
line editor underlying vi.  Start it via 'vi' only when you want visual 
editing.


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