z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

vi
autoindent, ai
When autoindent is on and you are entering text, the indentation of the
current line is used for the new line. In vi mode, you can change this
default indentation by using the control keys Ctrl-D (to shift left) or Ctrl-T to
shift right. In ex mode, a tab or spaces can be typed at the start of a line to
increase the indent, or a Ctrl-D can be typed at the start of the line to
remove a level. ^Ctrl-D temporarily removes the ident for the current line.
0Ctrl-D places the current line at a zero indent level, and the next line has
this indent level as well.
The size of indent levels is defined by the variable shiftwidth.. Based on
this value and the value of tabstop, the editor generates the number of tabs
and spaces needed to produce the required indent level.
The default is noautoident.
autoprint, ap
When this option is set in ex mode, the current line is printed after the
following commands: copy, delete, join, move, substitute, undo, &, ~, . Automatic displaying of lines does not take place inside global
commands.
The default is autoprint.
autowrite, aw
When this option is on, the current file is automatically written out if it has
been changed since it was last written and you have run any of the
following commands: next, rewind, tag, Ctrl-^ (vi), and Ctrl-] (vi). Using
an exclamation mark (!) with any of these commands stops the automatic
write.
The default is noautowrite.
beautify, bf
When this option is on, the editor discards all nonprinting characters from
text read in from files.
The default is nobeautify.
cdpath Used by cd to find relative pathnames when changing the directory. You
must delimit entries with a colon (:). If the current directory is to be included
in the search, it must be indicated by a dot (.). cdpath defaults to the
contents of the CDPATH environment variable if it exists, or to dot (.) if it
doesn’t.
directory, dir
The editor uses temporary files with unique names under the given
directory. Any error on the temporary files is fatal.
The default is directory=tmp.
edcompatible
When this option is on, the editor attempts to make substitution commands
behave in a way that is compatible with the ed editor. The g and c options
on the substitute commands are remembered and toggled by their
occurrence. The r option uses the last regular expression rather than the
last substitute regular expression. Percentage mark (%) as the entire pattern
is equivalent to the previous pattern.
The default is nocompatible.
errorbells, eb
When this option is on, vi precedes error messages with the alert character.
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