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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:02:22 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD
Message-ID:  <20050617220222.GA42080@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <58826.1119044951@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20050617214658.GA41804@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <58826.1119044951@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:49:11PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20050617214658.GA41804@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl w
> rites:
> >On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:36:32PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <20050617211950.GA41720@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl w
> >> rites:
> >> >I have taken mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD and integrated into the
> >> >FreeBSD source tree.
> >> 
> >> man 1 ee
> >> 
> >
> >troutmask:kargl[203] ldd /usr/bin/ee
> >/usr/bin/ee:
> >        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x20063a000)
> >        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x200795000)
> >troutmask:kargl[204] find /usr/src/rescue -name Make\* | xargs grep ncurses
> 
> yes, and ?
> 
> If you want a non-curses editor it's called ed(1).

We're trying to help our user base recover from a disaster.
I suspect ed(1) is not well-known through out the FreeBSD
user base.  mined(1) is a full-screen editor, which of 
course allows one to see what she is editing.  mined(1)
also has on-line help for all possible key-binding actions
in a 1 page listing.

> If you want a static curses editor, compile ee(1) -static.

Well, this will help me, but how exactly does it help our
user base.  Currently, /rescue/vi is useless if a termcap
file is not available (as in /usr is hosed).

-- 
Steve



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