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Date:      Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:04:14 +0200
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, randy@psg.com
Subject:   Re: termcap under single luser
Message-ID:  <48970C5E.6000406@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <200808041330.m74DUsg9075683@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200808041330.m74DUsg9075683@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On 2008-08-04 15:30, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> This seems to be a problem with nvi.  AFAIR the original
> BSD vi would run fine without a termcap.  It would enter
> open-mode automatically in that case.  Among the various
> vi clones, elvis implements open-mode, but nvi does not.
> 
> Anyway, I vote for moving termcap to /etc.

Please note that /rescue/vi does NOT read termcap from /etc, at least
not on RELENG_7.  (The ncurses library only seems to use $HOME/.termcap
and /usr/share/misc/termcap, nothing else.)



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