Re: [Leaf-user] using the e3 editor in Oxygen

2001-11-12 Thread David Douthitt 

Brent P. Gardner wrote:

 It turns out
 that e3 was in vi mode as suggested below.  This confuses me because
 both e3 and vi are in the list of options displayed when Oxygen asks
 which editor you would like to use.  Since I specified e3 I didn't think
 to try vi commands.

The reason for this is that I wanted Oxygen to provide a UNIX-like
environment, and virtually every UNIX system ever made comes with vi. 
Also, in the selection process, if you load all of the added add-on
packages, one can choose from emacs (zile), vi (elvis-tiny), pico
(nano), and perhaps even THE (a VMS VDT clone).

Also, I wanted to allow a user to specify they wanted vi or emacs or
whatever and e3 should be set up to act that way.

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Re: [Leaf-user] using the e3 editor in Oxygen

2001-11-12 Thread Brent P. Gardner 

David-

I actually don't have enough experience with *nix 
text editors to have 
a preference.  When I started up Oxygen for the first 
time it went 
through a script, part of which asked me to choose 
which editor I 
wanted to use.  I chose e3 not out of any personal 
preference but 
because it was first in the list.  I've been reading 
this mailing list 
for over a year so I know that e3 can be configured 
to emulate many 
popular text editors but since I specified e3 when 
Oxygen asked me 
which I wanted to use I assumed I would be 
using 'generic' e3.  Due to 
my lack of experience, when it came time to edit 
files I couldn't 
figure out how to work the editor, so I went looking 
for the e3 man 
page.  When commands suggested in the e3 man page 
didn't work I became 
confused and produced the first post in this thread.  
Helpful posts 
from helpful list members helped me to realize that 
e3 was emulating 
vi.  Once I figured that out I was fine.  I am now 
able to edit 
anything on the system that needs editing.  

Again, I don't have a personal preference when it 
comes to *nix text 
editors.  As long as I can get an editor to save my 
changes I'm happy.
If you as the developer are curious as to why e3 in 
my copy of Oxygen 
defaults to vi emulation when e3 is specified in the 
initial boot 
sequence I'd be glad to report on the various 
settings in various 
configuration files, but otherwise I'm happy with it 
as it is.  I'm 
not writing the Great American Novel here, just 
editing a few scripts 
:) with the ultimate goal of establishing an Oxygen-
based FTP server.

Thanks for your help and for a great product.

Brent Gardner


 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Brent P. Gardner wrote:
 
  Thanks Steve, Charles, and Patrick for your 
suggestions.  It turns 
  out that e3 was in vi mode as suggested below.  
This confuses me 
  because both e3 and vi are in the list of options 
displayed when 
  Oxygen asks which editor you would like to use.  
Since I specified 
  e3 I didn't think to try vi commands.
 
 Sounded like you wanted WordStar commands - if you 
use e3ws, or 
 change E3EM to the appropriate value in .profile, 
then it should 
 work.
 
 Did you do that?  Is it working for you now?
 
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