vi bug(feature?)

Ron Flax ron at men1.UUCP
Sat Jul 27 02:01:43 AEST 1985


> My standard shell is the /bin/csh.  When I try doing a any command
> with a name that needs to be shell expanded the editor calls the shell,
> but gets confused by the shell prompt and includes that in the file list.
> This is a pain when using the n command, but makes things like e ~/.signature
> impossible(at lease I don't no how to make it work.).
> I do not have source code.  I am running on a SUN 2/120 under Unix 4.2BSD(Sun
> release 2.00).

Try putting your 'set prompt=xx' in .login not .cshrc!  .login is only
read when you login and .cshrc is read each time you call the shell.
You should probably only put aliases in .cshrc.

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