Re: an old "hack" of mine, shared for amusement

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 04:23:12PM -0400, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Are you saying, original Vi could be tricked to execute various commands
> > via modelines? That sounds pretty scary actually.
>
> Still can, if you have real vi somewhere. (You can also embed arbitrary
> ex commands in tag files for real vi.)

I will say in my defense that the clue about the Vim 4.2 swap file was
a bit of a red herring, especially since Vim honors ex and vi's
modelines.

Anyhow, it's now time to test this with Traditional Vi

http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/

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Erik Falor
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