Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 23:28:16 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199606052128.XAA11363@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 13:59:51 EDT." <199606041759.NAA21311@mongoose.bostic.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> > > > Here are patches to implement a terser version of above on > > FreeBSD-current/usr.bin/vi, ( to stop vi newbies getting stranded ). > > > > I've tested (& installed here) with set showmode ruler showdirty. > > If someone would try them, & they're considered OK, > > maybe they're acceptable for inclusion in src/ ? > > I'm hesitant to do this. The reason is that this will require > lots and lots of repaint characters whenever the lower line gets > updated, It's for people like my girlfriend (used to WordPerfect/Word), working on local fast screens, but who rarely use or don't know vi. Not for experienced vi users who do remote vi's under xterms around the globe on slow links. I doubt we (this list) would use this extended `showmode' much ourselves, it's for our non-vi-familiar local associates. > and it's not going to fit if the ruler option is on as well. It does fit actually, (didn't when first implemented but I truncated the text, before posting the patches). All is OK with: resize :li#45::co#65: :set all lines=45 term="xterm" ruler columns=65 showdirty nomodeline showmode window=44 > What I'd like to do is have a "novice" mode where vi splits the > screen and puts a full help file into the lower half, with the > common commands immediately visible. Yes, occured to me too, but I figured anything beyond a minor tweak was best off leaving to the master :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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