Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 11:25:54 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@munich.netsurf.de> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ^Z behaviour Message-ID: <199512011125.LAA02531@peedub.gj.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:31:49 %2B0100." <199511301131.MAA24728@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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"Christoph P. Kukulies" writes: > >His users were happy users of the med editor (ex PCS people, >when will be a port of med available? Jordan, are you listening ?:-) >and have this ^Z built into their finger memory. So it happens >that they send vi permanently into background, wondering and starting >over with a pile of vi sessions in bg. > MED is owned by Dittmar Krall and was sold by PCS under license from him. Didn't he ever contact you ? I remember giving him your E-Mail address sometime last year when I told him you'd asked about MED under FBSD. Of course, he'll want a license fee. >I tried stty susp ^P or something but it seems that the ^Z >behaviour is built into vi. > >Any ideas how to help these people? > I don't know. Make a custom version of vi ? Or wean them from this nasty habit (which is a result of M. Uhlenberg's predeliction for using ^Z as EOF instead of ^D as any normal UNIX user would do. He even built it into the PCS kernels !). --- Gary Jennejohn Home - Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de Work - gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
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