Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:25:31 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> To: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat <mojahed@citechco.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RIDE for BSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051223080.28252-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000104212941.A1244@mars.cosmos.net>
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> > 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?). ;-)))) Under Linux, RHIDE behaves like you were in X or dosemu -- whiching between consoles occurs on Ctrl-Alt-F7. > > > So, I based on all the above, I expect Alt-F5 not to work > > because no 'cons.saver' for fBSD and meta-keys seem to to work > > either. > > I gather that, hitting Alt-F5 gets you the output screen in > RHIDE. Again, shouldn't Alt-F5 land you in VT5 in Linux? > > 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. > > I guess the midc authors are just being a bit lazy (it's a free > program after all), or more likely, they don't see much demand in > the FreeBSD sector. > > (Who needs those nitty-fitty window shells, the command line > rules! -- just my very HO) > > > -- > Mojahed > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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