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The following tab indented lines will cause a true vi with modelines
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activated to infinitely loop putting "Hello World" in the buffer. Hit
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to abort the loop and see the output. None of the vi clones
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support modelines this powerful, and modelines are disabled by default.
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Set the environment variable EXINIT to "set ml" to activate modelines.
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vi: $ y a :
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vi: $-1y b :
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vi: @b :
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put a |@b
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Hello World
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Whitespace is largely insignificant, but these must be the last five
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lines in the file to work properly. Unless it is in "vi: ... :" or
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"ex: ... :" format, any preceeding text will be ignored.
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