Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:05:50 -0400 From: "Thimble Smith" <tim@mysql.com> To: "William D. Freeman" <wdf@picusnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20000419170550.V1716@threads.polyesthetic.msg> In-Reply-To: <38FE024A.962899C2@picusnet.com>; from wdf@picusnet.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:00:26PM -0400 References: <38FE024A.962899C2@picusnet.com>
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:00:26PM -0400, William D. Freeman wrote:
> Is there and active maninater for the nvi editor? I'm jsut asking
> because i'm interested in hacking on it some to add some features i want
> (making backspace do ^H to delete previoue character for one).
Hmmm... probably a better way to fix it would be to just type:
$ stty erase ^H
at the prompt, before you type vi. Or, add that into your .profile
or .login file.
> I don't really want to use Vim because i need a project to help
> me become a better C programmer.
It seems like there are probably better projects for improving your
C skills. Maybe you could use Vim, and add a feature to it (check
with the vim developers list to see what is going on).
Tim
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