sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to customise vi by writing a few commands in .exrc file 
> in my home directory, but whenever I start vi those commands do not 
> take place. Could someone plese tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> PS. I've read the man pages etc, but can't figure out what the problem 
> is :-(
>
> roman$ cat $HOME/.exrc
> set wraplen=80
> set showmode
> roman$ vi
>
> ....
>
> running vi, "set wraplen=80" and "set showmode" have not been set :-(
>
Oh yeah! I found out what the problem was, EXINIT environment variable 
was set, so vi skipped reading $HOME/.exrc