From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 4 20:38:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA19268 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA19250; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10119; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:02:46 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:02:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Keith Bostic , current@freebsd.org, jhs@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: editors In-Reply-To: <6386.833937853@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. How about some code that detects new users? When it does, then an ascii graphic Wizard will come on the screen and help the user through their tasks. There could be a wizard to explain all cool features, and sepcial help for recovering WordPerfect users... Huh? Oh, sorry I thought this was a Microsoft mailing lists. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================