ken wrote: > So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the > distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never > understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other.
i can answer that one. in the bad old days, if you were working on a slow dialup (300 or 1200 baud), or, actually, a printing terminal at any speed, you'd probably want to invoke ed or ex. if you were working on a "high-speed" 9600 baud terminal, you'd likely want vi or emacs etc. so a program like mail would offer two escapes (~e vs. ~v) to let yo invoke either. paul =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 33.8 degrees) -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
