From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 4:45:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0738337B403 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 04:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:45:19 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17Mojn-0000KD-00; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:43:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:43:58 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Johan du Toit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support Request...vi related In-Reply-To: <3D18801A.11965.A98DF8@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Johan du Toit wrote: > Good Day! > > I am fairly new in the freeBSD arena and would like to raise this > simple question... > > How can I prevent system messages from scrolling while busy > editing a file in vi ?? It is nearly impossible doing it as you can > imagine. > > I have tried using the :set nomsg command, but no luck. Well, you could try using a different virtual terminal (it, use ALT-F2 to login) since you won't see console stuff there. If you're logged in as root (not su'ed to root) then you may get system alerts - most fo this is configurable through /etc/syslog.conf. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "...er, that's my _spare_ axe." - Gimli in the Council of Elrond, FotR. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message