From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 22:13:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA8616A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B00043D53 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5HMDrbG050266; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j5HMDr3M050265; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:13:53 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: Thomas Dickey Message-ID: <20050617221353.GA48584@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20050617214658.GA41804@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <58826.1119044951@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050617220222.GA42080@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050617220653.GA114@saltmine.radix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050617220653.GA114@saltmine.radix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:13:53 -0000 On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:06:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:02:22PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > Well, this will help me, but how exactly does it help our > > user base. Currently, /rescue/vi is useless if a termcap > > file is not available (as in /usr is hosed). > > This topic comes up about every 3 months. ncurses can be compiled to have > embedded terminal descriptions. That's one choice. Another is to have a > small termcap file. That's another choice. Of course another choice is > to change the editor (though stating that it has support for cons25 and > xterm sounds suspicious, since they do differ). > I've already stated that I'm aware of the PR that has a minimalist termcap, which needs to be installed somewhere that /rescue/vi can find it. -r-xr-xr-x 129 root wheel 3669272 Jun 17 15:09 /rescue/ee* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3564216 Jun 17 14:50 /rescue/mined* -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3940176 Jun 16 15:56 /rescue/vi* This is an editor meant for recovering a system. It's not a full blown kitchen sink. It can be used in an xterm and it can be used from the console. -- Steve