The "flash" option was added relatively late and seems to be exclusive
to System V. (It's not in 4.4BSD and it's not in V8 UNIX, checked [on
TUHS](https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl).) The oldest occurrence of
`flash` in "a vi" I could find is in SysV R2 for the VAX, where it
[defaults to
1](https://github.com/ryanwoodsmall/oldsysv/blob/master/sysvr2-vax/src/cmd/vi/vax/ex_data.c)
= on.
closes: #14778
Signed-off-by: Cthulhux <github@tuxproject.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
-*vi_diff.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2022 Apr 03
+*vi_diff.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 May 15
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
autoprint (ap) boolean (default on) *'autoprint'* *'ap'*
beautify (bf) boolean (default off) *'beautify'* *'bf'*
-flash (fl) boolean (default ??) *'flash'* *'fl'*
+flash (fl) boolean (default on) *'flash'* *'fl'*
graphic (gr) boolean (default off) *'graphic'* *'gr'*
hardtabs (ht) number (default 8) *'hardtabs'* *'ht'*
number of spaces that a <Tab> moves on the display