From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 10 23:47:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5187737B403 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:47:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5B6lbl39112; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Roelof Osinga" Cc: "Jason Halbert" , Subject: RE: vi Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:47:36 -0700 Message-ID: <000d01c0f242$669b7000$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3B2286D6.58B3C504@nisser.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: Roelof Osinga [mailto:roelof@nisser.com] >Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 1:28 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Jason Halbert; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: vi > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> ... >> There's more to it than that. vi is very clever about minimal >use of cursor >> control characters during the file edit. It is possible and >comfortable to >> use vi to edit a file when connected to the UNIX system with no >more than a >> 300 baud modem connection. > >No it isn't . At least I've only used line editors with ASR's, both the >new sleak ones and the old ones that inspired terse command names >, running >at up to that baudrate. > Your probably not using a good terminal emulation program then. Who says the screen needs to have 24 lines? In severe bandwidth situations I resize to 5 lines in length and issue LINES=5 export and vi works very well at 80x5. In fact, it's faster because if you insert in a line in ed, if your an untrusting individual like I am invariably you have the system reprint the line. An insert in a terminal emulation screen shows what the heck is going on. and uses fewer characters because the terminal emulation does the insert. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message