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/ -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://unnovative.net -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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