From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 4 09:56:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25338 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25332; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA27055; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:52:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606041652.JAA27055@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: editors To: jhs@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:52:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org, bostic@cs.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: <199606032259.AAA00980@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at Jun 4, 96 00:59:29 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > It would be dead easy to hack the status mode word on the bottom line > > > > that you get with showmode: > > > > `Command' --> `Youre in Command mode Type :help if stuck' > > > > `Insert' --> `Youre in Insert mode Type if stuck' > > > > Showmode would be preset on, from .exrc, of course. > > > Uh, you mean: > > > `Insert' --> `Youre in Insert mode Hit if stuck' > > Ah, Yes :-) > Here are patches to implement a terser version of above on > FreeBSD-current/usr.bin/vi, ( to stop vi newbies getting stranded ). > > I've tested (& installed here) with set showmode ruler showdirty. > If someone would try them, & they're considered OK, > maybe they're acceptable for inclusion in src/ ? Send them to Keith first; we are vendor branching vi (I thought), and he is the source vendor. Better to not have local patches. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.