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To: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: editors 
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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 18:24:13 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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