Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 18:24:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, jhs@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <6386.833937853@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 13:59:51 EDT." <199606041759.NAA21311@mongoose.bostic.com>
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> What I'd like to do is have a "novice" mode where vi splits the > screen and puts a full help file into the lower half, with the > common commands immediately visible. Kind of like pico... The Yep, I like that. > 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. Jordan
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