Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:44:17 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991123164417.A3836@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199911240032.SAA48356@freeside.fc.net>; from jdunham@fc.net on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:32:36PM -0600 References: <19991123214041.A316@marder-1> <199911240032.SAA48356@freeside.fc.net>
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On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:32:36PM -0600, Jerry Dunham wrote:
> Wow! In all the years I've been using vi, I never ran across that one.
> I wonder whether there's any way to print that out to use as a cheat
> sheet. Interestingly, that command doesn't work on this here IRIX box.
The :viusage command isn't standard. It's an nvi'ism. However, it
should be noted that the program called vi on IRIX is obviously a bad
SGI internal implementation because they brake all sorts of things
including undo. They include GPL'd software in their distribution,
you'd think they could use a working vi link nvi.
-- Brooks
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