vi bug(feature?) (really csh)

[Andrew Macpherson]

In article <155 at graffiti.UUCP> peter at graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Oh yeh, my main gripe with CSH: It expands *history* in non-interactive shells,
>which makes it a pain to do a uucp mail from vi, which also expands history.
>My solution? At the end of my .cshrc I add the line: "setenv SHELL /bin/sh".

That's rather extreme: how about

if ( ! $?prompt ) then
	set histchars=''
	exit
endif
interactive csh bits...

That way you can still get your real SHELL from more and simmilar...

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