From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 10:17:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FB516A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:17:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CA343D53 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:17:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i95AHfjv011447 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:17:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i95AHeiQ011446; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:17:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:17:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20041005101740.GD9642@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Giorgos Keramidas , Daniela , questions@freebsd.org, Dave Vollenweider References: <20041002225028.05205e9a.metaridley@mchsi.com> <200410042154.52088.dgw@liwest.at> <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:17:41 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: Daniela cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Dave Vollenweider Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:17:53 -0000 --OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:57:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: =20 > All this that I described above, and even more, I can do in Emacs or vim. > Using the system vi(1) on Solaris isn't a problem either, but I don't push > myself to use *THAT* editor if I don't have to. I stopped using vi(1) on > Solaris when messages like this became annoying: >=20 > sun2# stty columns 190 > sun2# \vi > Terminal too wide > : Ah -- yes. That brings back memories. Trying to use sdiff(1) on Solaris. Where you want your terminal to be as wide as possible so you can display the files you're diffing side by side, but you can't use emacs(1) as your $EDITOR because the way it shuffles around copies of the files to keep a backup version confuses sdiff(1). Better hope that the stuff you're diffing is less that 66 columns wide, so you can fit it in the maximum 132 columns that Solaris vi permits. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBYnTEiD657aJF7eIRAv+zAJ0XfGtWvwVwcRXsLrahPAHblUwJuwCfb2Sg jpGtTUxvaXz7Y8vRejQunsI= =FQcv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OROCMA9jn6tkzFBc--