MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

vi(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities vi(1)
shiftwidth, sw
This sets the width of indent used by shift commands and autoindent.
The default is shiftwidth=8.
showmatch, sm
If this option is on and you type a closing parenthesis ()) or closing brace (}) in input
mode, the cursor moves to the matching open parenthesis or brace. It stays there for
about one second and then moves back to where you were. This lets you note the re-
lationship between opening and closing parentheses/braces.
The default is noshowmatch.
showmode
When this option is on, vi displays an indicator in the bottom right-hand corner of
the screen if you are in Insert/Open/Change/Replace mode. If no indicator is
displayed, you are in Command mode.
The default is noshowmode.
tabstop
Tab stops for screen display in Vi mode are set to multiples of this number.
The default is tabstop=8
taglength, tl
If this variable is non-zero, tags are only compared for this number of characters.
The default is taglength=0.
tags
The value of this variable should be a list of space-separated file names separated by
spaces. These are used by the tag Ex command and the
CTRL-] Vi command. The
files are typically created with the ctags program.
The default is tags=tags.
term
The value of this variable is the terminal type.
The default value is that of the
TERM
environment variable.
terse If this option is on, messages are displayed in a very abbreviated form.
The default is noterse.
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