Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:47:36 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Roelof Osinga" <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: vi Message-ID: <000d01c0f242$669b7000$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B2286D6.58B3C504@nisser.com>
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>-----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 <g>. 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 ><g>, 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
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