5 Jan
2022
5 Jan
'22
2:35 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:33 PM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, hallelujah, after much travail (I've tried
this every Christmas for
at least 5 years now), I have succeeded in building vi on v7 from 2bsd. Had
to patch the c compiler to enlarge the symbol table, tweak some stuff here
and there, but it finally built and installed without any errors, yay.
Now, I just want it to do some editing, preferably in visual mode. I can
call it as ex or vi:
# ex
:
or
# vi
:
and q will exit, yay, again!
I have at least two problems:
1. It's not going "full" screen, even with TERM=vt100 or TERM=ansi set
(not that I was surprised, but it'd be nice)...
What does /etc/termcap look like?
2. If I type a for append and type something,
there's no way to get back
to the : prompt (ESC doesn't seem to work).
3. I'd like manpages (figure they might help with the above), but they're
on the tape as .u files?
I'm hoping this triggers some, oh yeah I remember that, type responses.
Thanks,
Will