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Setting up an editing options command file z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide SA23-2279-00 |
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A command file contains a number of commands that can be executed
as if they were typed in a vi session. For example, you might
use vi to create a file with the contents:
This sets all the options you want to
use and all the abbreviations you need. The file can only contain
instructions that normally start with a colon (:) in vi,
but you omit the colons in the command file. During a vi session,
you can execute all the instructions in the command file with the
instruction:
where cmdfile is
the name of your command file. so stands for source, and
it tells vi that the given file should be taken as the source
of a number of commands.You can execute the commands in a command file when you first start vi. Start vi with the command:
where cmdfile is the name of your command file
and filename is the name of the file you want to edit. You
might want to set up an alias for vi -c 'so cmdfile'; for
example:
You can also set up a $HOME/.exrc file that contains all the commands you may want to run whenever you enter vi. |
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