Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:40:22 -0600 From: "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net> To: "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Message-ID: <002c01c0b100$42aca160$1885a7d8@king1> References: <200103200128.f2K1SCe99911@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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uhm, i know what alias does, but... what does ls -lt !* do? i read the bash man page. uhm, that was a few months ago. and i never really figured out what ! did. i was sorta kinda thinking that it was to insert the last command, but i'm probably wrong. still haven't booted into a *nix os. but. thank you anyway. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Christopher Leigh <clcont@gmx.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:28 PM Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? > "Christopher Leigh" writes: > > uhm, what does that do? > > > > :D > > The alias saves the memory which would be consumed with an extra shell. > Or it saves the effort of loading a shell script only to exec vi. > > > but anywho. uhm. i have to use winderz to write email/send it... > > because i like my OE5 way better than anything i've ever seen using > > bsd/linux. but really... i do enjoy "mail", although... i guess i must > > not be able to use it very well, because i can't figure out how to > > create a message when i type mail, or... figure out how to get into it > > when i don't actually have any mail... > > /usr/bin/Mail is pretty basic. Is best to specify who you want to send > mail to on the command line. "mail dkelly@hiwaay.net" will then prompt > for a subject, then you type the message body, and end with a dot at > the start of a line. > > If you are in Mail and looking at a list of messages then "m" will let > you compose a new message. > > But if you get that far then you need something such as sendmail > configured correctly to deliver the message. And fetchmail (from ports) > is good for plucking incoming mail off your ISP. > > On a text terminal, mutt is very good. In X I use exmh2.3.1 but have > been liking mutt even more lately but not enough to completely switch. > > What I'd really like is a BSD Eudora. With MacOS X arriving Saturday I > think Qualcomm is going to have to be working on a BSD Eudora. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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