From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 13:42: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE79314ED5 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:42:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA74364; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:41:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:41:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RIDE for BSD Message-ID: <20000104154134.A73500@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000104212941.A1244@mars.cosmos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000104212941.A1244@mars.cosmos.net>; from "Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat" on Tue Jan 4 21:29:41 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 04), Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat said: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:33:54PM +0600, Alexey N. Dokuchaev > > 2. In mcedit, I can continue searching in file with M-F7 (Alt-F7). > > Well, for some weird reason, no such feature in midc under FBSD. > > Just curious. Isn't Alt-F7 supposed to switch to virtual terminal 7? > Linux distros have 6 VTs setup by default, where FreeBSD has 8 > (3.3-RELEASE). What happens if you enable VT7 (or run X on it?). A better question is "why aren't you just hitting 'n' to go to the next match?" :) Saves you a keystroke. In fact, ALT-F7 isn't even listed as an option in the mc online help. Only 'n' is mentioned. > About the argument of midc authors regarding C-o. Can't they switch > to a pseudo terminal before running the program, run the program and > come back to the original terminal? Then switch between the original > and pseudo terminals on hitting C-o? "screen" does this sort of thing > all the time, so it's very much possible. And as a side effect, this approach would work on any login, not just the console. For example, most of my VTYs are really ssh logins to other machines on my network. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message