From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 02:26:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA09539 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 02:26:59 -0800 Received: from peedub.gj.org (ns057.munich.netsurf.de [194.64.166.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA09533 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 02:26:52 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.gj.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA02531; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:25:55 GMT Message-Id: <199512011125.LAA02531@peedub.gj.org> X-Authentication-Warning: peedub.gj.org: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ^Z behaviour Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:31:49 +0100." <199511301131.MAA24728@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 11:25:54 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "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