Setting properties for vi during run time.

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi
I want to view the line numbers in /bin/rvi when i open a file to edit in a script.
The default properites of vi editor are not set to view line numbers and not allowed to change them.
So instead of doing :set nu everytime editor opens the file, how it can be set
temporarily when script is run to view line numbers and line breaks.

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance,
Ashish

2

you can set with the help of .vimrc.

  • nilesh
3

You can set this up in your vi initialization file. Just add the line:
set number
to that file. Line numbers will be added just like you entered :set number from within vi.

4

You can try to make an editor start-up file, .exrc and put the command to enter number lines in it!
On the other hand, the 'r' in rvi means that this is a 'restrictive' vi and you may not be able to make the changes that you want. Can you run vi, vim or gvim?

5

Thanks for help.

but it will set line numbers everytime i use vi to open file. I just want to set line numbers when vi is run from my script.

Is there any way that i can specify which configuration for vi to be used.