Martin Schulze wrote:
Ken Gaugler writes:
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
ae is on board.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
We already faught
Greg Vence writes:
ae is on board.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-(
There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This
might be included in further releases.
Martin Schulze wrote:
Greg Vence writes:
ae is on board.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-(
There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This
might be
On Apr 11, Greg Vence wrote
Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision
I don't want to perform this fight a second time. This was the decision
and now we should al live with it until we find a better solution
(which could mean finding a very small vi or reducing
The only shortcoming I have run into with ae as a base editor is the lack
of a basic search command.
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+ Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation +
+ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Schulze wrote:
Greg Vence writes:
ae is on board.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-(
There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This
might be
The only shortcoming I have run into with ae as a base editor is the lack
of a basic search command.
I've also had screen freezes using it over telnet; i don't know if the new
versions of ncurses have fixed this.
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
When I was in school, my UNIX teacher had one immutable law;
Thou shalt learn vi. His argument was that no matter what
flavor of unix you happen to come across in your career as a
unix administrator, there will always be vi on the system. I
have to
Martin Schulze writes:
...there's already a notice that the only installed editor is called ae.
Where?
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
From: someone...
I've never seen a base-line Unix box w/o vi that was what prompted the
initial mail.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze)
Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision [...]
It's funny how often this comes up. The reason is that the base system
is the
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Just type edit.
On 10-Apr-97 Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
Have a good one
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install?
The editor you are expected to use is ae, but sed is also in base if you
really want to abuse yourself.
Ae is configured as a modeless editor with a visible help screen, so
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Well, if I understand the question your command line should look like:
cp /dev/console file-name
[snip]
If you know which Virtual Console you are on, they are accessed through
the ttyN devices, so from console 1 the line would look
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Well, if I understand the question your command line should look like:
cp /dev/console file-name
cp /dev/tty1 file-name
Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
--
Ken Gaugler
Ken Gaugler writes:
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
ae is on board.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
Don't be silly. It didn't need to be mentioned; he never would have asked the
question
unless he'd somehow broken vi :)
rick
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
I need to edit my ppp scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size.
ed is very small :-)
Dwarf
Andre
scripts.
What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device
for 'cp ' that uses the console for input?
Thanx -- Greg.
I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
anymore? :-)
Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size
Andre Koopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vi is not provided on the base disks because of its size.
ed is very small :-)
hades|00:08:36 ~ [501] $ls -l $(type -path ed) $(type -path ae)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root23945 Jun 28 1996 /bin/ae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67969 Mar
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