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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ??
To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:47:26 -0700 (MST)
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> My understanding is the Bill Joy vi doesn't even catch SIGWINCH...
> 
> Would you prefer a vi (like Sun's) which doesn't resize in an xterm?

I think the "SIGnal WINdow CHange" is actually Sun-specific.

No, I wouldn't prefer that.

But typing "^Z" and "fg\r" shouldn't break my cursor keys on a VT100,
the standard by which all other terminals are judged.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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