7 Jul
2020
7 Jul
'20
3:47 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
There was also the client we had in PNG, where access
was via a flakey
1200 modem i.e. no error correction, and VI was out of the question.
The old 'o' command (which does the same as 'vi' in vim) was designed
for
that situation, provided your terminal isn't a printing one. A one-line
window is cheap enough; backspace and carriage-return give you
everything you need.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound free-range chickens (except they have
teeth, arms instead of wings, and dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso