From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 25 19:24: 9 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 AC0A537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (aurora.scoop.co.nz [203.96.152.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A5643EB2 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:24:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBQ3O0jg073310; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:24:00 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:24:00 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Cc: pjklist@ekahuna.com, Subject: Re: Mergemaster editor problem In-Reply-To: <1040871700.6147.7.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Message-ID: <20021226162227.B72213-100000@a2.scoop.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 21:33, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > "%ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terminal > (...) > > mergemaster -v -C -w 132 2>&1 |tee -a > > So vi's standard output wasn't a terminal (it was the pipe to tee). > Sounds like "working as designed" to me. You might want to try using 'script' insteed of piping through tee. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew McNaughton In Sydney and looking for work andrew@scoop.co.nz http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc Mobile: +61 422 753 792 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message