Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:13:53 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD Message-ID: <20050617221353.GA48584@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050617220653.GA114@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20050617214658.GA41804@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <58826.1119044951@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050617220222.GA42080@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050617220653.GA114@saltmine.radix.net>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:06:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:02:22PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > 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). > > This topic comes up about every 3 months. ncurses can be compiled to have > embedded terminal descriptions. That's one choice. Another is to have a > small termcap file. That's another choice. Of course another choice is > to change the editor (though stating that it has support for cons25 and > xterm sounds suspicious, since they do differ). > I've already stated that I'm aware of the PR that has a minimalist termcap, which needs to be installed somewhere that /rescue/vi can find it. -r-xr-xr-x 129 root wheel 3669272 Jun 17 15:09 /rescue/ee* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3564216 Jun 17 14:50 /rescue/mined* -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3940176 Jun 16 15:56 /rescue/vi* This is an editor meant for recovering a system. It's not a full blown kitchen sink. It can be used in an xterm and it can be used from the console. -- Steve
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