Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 17:58:40 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199606051558.RAA10169@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jun 1996 08:34:25 EDT." <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> > Subject: Re: editors > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:34:25 -0400 (EDT) > Message-id: <199606051234.IAA28273@mongoose.bostic.com> > > >> 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. > > True, but the one that worries me is when someone just types > vi, or gets launched because their EDITOR variable wasn't set. > > I keep wandering around ideas like three keystroke errors > in a row... ;-} That's a nice idea, as long as it could be disabled by something like ~/.exrc `set noautohelp' Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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