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

Hi Eli!

On Di, 25 Apr 2017, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> Everyone seems to be missing it. rot13 solution for those interested.
>
> This *hack* was designed to *not* work in vim.
>
> It works in vi. It makes vi reopen the file with vim.
>
> (And by-the-by, I have Vim 3.0 for Mac System 7. I found it for download
> last year when I was playing with the Basilisk II emulator. Vim 3: back
> when 'q' did the thing 'gq' does now. And 'Q' was unimplemented.)

Are you saying, original Vi could be tricked to execute various commands
via modelines? That sounds pretty scary actually.

Best,
Christian
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selbst tut.
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