From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 28 23:13:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA11743 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 23:13:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA11736 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 23:12:55 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19770; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:12:52 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA18735; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:12:51 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA05165; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:07:05 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506290607.IAA05165@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: update on keyboard lockup with SNAP To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:07:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jun 28, 95 03:55:05 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1646 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jan Isley wrote: > > > Hmm, i should have pointed you to the documentation in > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc. My fault. > > Ah, well getting anything requires going through several systems > and slow modems just to get here, so I had only been getting the > ssys.src anyway. I am very new to BSD, but I thought that was > what man pages and /usr/share was for. ;-) Did you find Alt-F somewhere in a man page? ;-) Currently, pcvt is third-party software, designed to compile on several systems. I've heavily tweaked the original directory structure of the pcvt distrib- ution to fit halfways into our /usr/src structure. Maintaining the pcvt doc under /usr/share would cause the potential risk of being different from the docs under /usr/src. I think it might be possible to make this doc a separate (small) source package however, and leave a pointer to it under /usr/share. (Maybe i will add a small intro for the keyboard usage into pcvt(4), but hey, did you even read that man page? :-) > > > typing esc-k-return (with bash set -ao vi that is) ... > > Well, you `vi' fans out there. Wouldn't have it been better to > > temporarily ``set -o emacs'' and simly hit the up arrow key? :-} > Sure, if I had thought of it. :-( I *prefer* vi editing modes > because I learned vi first. At this point, I think it would take > me a few decades to learn to like emacs. Not to start a ``why is mine better than yours'' discussion, but i've always found the arrow keys easier to `learn'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)