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Date:      Wed, 05 Jun 1996 17:58:40 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
To:        Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org
Subject:   Re: editors 
Message-ID:  <199606051558.RAA10169@vector.jhs.no_domain>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jun 1996 08:34:25 EDT." <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com> 

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Hi, Reference:
> From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> 
> Subject: Re: editors 
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:34:25 -0400 (EDT) 
> Message-id: <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com> 
>
> >> question that I haven't been able to answer is what to use to
> >> trigger this event.  I could certainly use :help, but as Julian
> >
> > How about a command line flag?  I can run `vi --on-screen-help' 
> > or whatever when I know that the novice is about to be punted into
> > vi, no sweat.
> 
> True, but the one that worries me is when someone just types
> vi, or gets launched because their EDITOR variable wasn't set.
> 
> I keep wandering around ideas like three keystroke errors
> in a row... ;-}

That's a nice idea, as long as it could be disabled by something like
	~/.exrc `set noautohelp'

Julian
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Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/



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