From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 8:11:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F7C37B424 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 08:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (ip145.buffalo11.ny.pub-ip.psi.net [38.26.224.145]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22008; Sat, 26 May 2001 08:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA87347; Sat, 26 May 2001 11:10:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105261510.LAA87347@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: looked EVERYWHERE, can't find nvi screen answer In-Reply-To: <20010525213028.A27561@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from j mckitrick at "May 25, 2001 09:30:28 pm" To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick) Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:09:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know vim has this ability. You can have multiple windows open with different files on one vt, very handy. As for how to get nvi to do this, I've also looked in the docs and its not there, but I think I remember reading how to on this list sometime ago. Maybe check geocrawler. Ian As told by, j mckitrick > > I heard you can gave background and foreground screens in (n)vi. When i try > bg, it tells me i cannot background my only screen. God only knows i have > read the usages and man pages about a dozen times, searching for how to > create a new screen. Can someone point me in the right direction? > > jcm > -- > "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message