Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:10:57 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.org, jhs@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199606051310.OAA21117@tees> In-Reply-To: <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com> References: <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com>
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>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> writes: >>> 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. Keith> True, but the one that worries me is when someone just types Keith> vi, or gets launched because their EDITOR variable wasn't set. Keith> I keep wandering around ideas like three keystroke errors in a Keith> row... ;-} If it's an option then make it a compile time switch to decide whether it's in novice mode by default or not. FreeBSD can compile it to be in novice mode by default and any experienced user can switch it off the first time they use it in their .exrc file.
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