Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:13266 news.sysadmin:1862 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sneaky!gordon From: gordon@sneaky.TANDY.COM (Gordon Burditt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trojan horse FIX for Rnmail and Pnews Summary: This fix breaks rn if editor != vi Message-ID: <5047@sneaky.TANDY.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 06:07:20 GMT References: <6798@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> Reply-To: gordon@sneaky.UUCP (Gordon Burditt) Organization: Gordon Burditt Lines: 17 >Here are the context diffs to fix Rnmail and Pnews. >Larry Wall, do you copy? [Condensed down guts of patch follow:] < ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-$defeditor}} $tmpart $oldart > ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-$defeditor}} '+set nomodeline' $tmpart $oldart Isn't this fix more than a little vi-specific? If EVERYONE at your site uses vi, fine, but I think it breaks attempts to use any editor other than vi. /bin/ed merrily edits the file '+set nomodeline'. Then Pnews or Rnmail work with the unmodified file. Emacs will probably do something strange with it also. Further, not all versions of vi even have a "nomodeline" option. Gordon L. Burditt ...!texbell!sneaky!gordon