From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 14:12:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hcisp.net (Stargate.hcisp.net [208.60.89.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBB7237B5BC for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@mysql.com) Received: (qmail 23170 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2000 20:21:25 -0000 Received: from modem2.hcsip.net (HELO threads.polyesthetic.msg) (208.60.89.68) by stargate.hcisp.net with SMTP; 19 Apr 2000 20:21:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 4431 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Apr 2000 21:05:50 -0000 From: "Thimble Smith" Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:05:50 -0400 To: "William D. Freeman" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20000419170550.V1716@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: <38FE024A.962899C2@picusnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38FE024A.962899C2@picusnet.com>; from wdf@picusnet.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:00:26PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message