From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 25 20:54:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF9337B401 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05B243EC5 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:54:43 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: "David A. Panariti" Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:58:34 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Mergemaster editor problem Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: allbery@ece.cmu.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20021225.224600.521638302.davep@meduseld.net> References: <20021226032419599.AAA347@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20021226045443373.AAA155@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Dec 2002 at 22:46, David A. Panariti boldly uttered: > There may be an easier way but you could use screen (/usr/ports/misc/screen) > It has an option to create a log file. > When using vi, it captures all of the escape sequences used to move the > cursor, etc, so there is a lot of garbage looking stuff in the log, but > everything is captured. > > Besides logging it is a wonderful utility with tons of uses. I use screen for certain things (particularly when I'm upgrading a server remotely over SSH, or in single-user mode) but syscons is much easier to work with for me when it's available. I think I'm inclined to go with the "script" route and just ignore/remove the vi-generated junk, this sounds the most practical. (reverting to a line-editor I don't think is an option :-) I'll do some testing and see how it goes. Thanks for everyone's suggestions. Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message