elvis vs. initial settings

[w trillich <will@pinncomp.net>]

elvis is a way-cool grown-up vi. wonderfully powerful!

but
	1) it ignores my startup settings and
	2) it exits with status 1 so that "crontab -e" breaks

	elvis 2.1_4
	(debian) Linux 2.0.36 #2

-- 1

i'm using debian/gnu linux with the apt-get module feature
(instead of individual *.rpm files all over the place there's
a nice dependency-checking structure involving the *.deb
package system) and recently did a major upgrade...

and now elvis won't read my init settings. it works just
fine, but ignores my settings...

i've tried
	~/.elvisrc
	~/.exrc
	~/.nexrc
	setenv EXINIT
	setenv NEXINIT
	setenv ELVIS

once i get into elvis i can do
	:source ~/.elvisrc
and voila, they take effect.

what are the likely suspects that would interfere?

-- 2

	# crontab -e
	<vi session, make a change>ZZ
	crontab: "vi" exited with status 1
	# vi someFileOrOther
	<tweak and munge>ZZ
	# echo $status
	1
	#

argh!