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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:34:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, jhs@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org
Subject:   Re: editors
Message-ID:  <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com>

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>> question that I haven't been able to answer is what to use to
>> trigger this event.  I could certainly use :help, but as Julian
>
> How about a command line flag?  I can run `vi --on-screen-help' 
> or whatever when I know that the novice is about to be punted into
> vi, no sweat.

True, but the one that worries me is when someone just types
vi, or gets launched because their EDITOR variable wasn't set.

I keep wandering around ideas like three keystroke errors
in a row... ;-}

--keith




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