From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 11:40:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08218 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 11:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08213 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 11:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa29640; 23 May 96 14:39 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA10433; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:39:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA12215; Thu, 23 May 96 14:39:31 EDT Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:39:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Paul Richards , Michael Smith , FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: editors In-Reply-To: <718.832860852@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 Thu, 23 May 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > As I've already said in another email, from my perspective I just want > things that are _self documenting_ in the installation path so that > you don't have to reach for a stack of books just to install the > system. If you had vi and some sort of "helper" app that actually > showed you the keymap and basic usage instructions in a side window > somehow, I'd happily use it here. > > Jordan Erm... Does ":help" count as "_self documenting_"? It spits out the following brief message: +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ To see the list of vi commands, enter ":viusage" To see the list of ex commands, enter ":exusage" For an ex command usage statement enter ":exusage [cmd]" For a vi key usage statement enter ":viusage [key]" To exit, enter ":q!" Needless to say, ":viusage" lists more than you want to know. Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/