On 11/10/05, Lonn Dugan
Lonn C. Dugan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:21:28PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
Allen wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:50:04PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: He told me back when he did this that Vi would only show one line at a time and you'd have like thousands of lines of code and have to check something a few lines up so you'd have to give the command to view it up in that area or something.
Perhaps he didn't know what he was talking about. Wouldn't be the first or last time that happened.
Mmmmm, usually I'd say yes to this, but this guy is one of the most intelligent computer people I've ever met. He has like no arrogance about him, but he knows he's not an idiot either. We get along good and I should check with him about when the dates were where Vi did this supposedly.
I know Vi is "Visual" ed, but the first versions of it maybe did only do one line at a time. Not positive about that though.
-Allen.
I haven't tried in a while, but last I knew VI still went into single line mode if you have an unsupported terminal. Not sure what other option it has. I've personally never had this happen with VIM, but that could be because I've never used VIM from a dumb terminal. IIRC, it has been a number of years (10-15) since I used a dumb terminal for anything. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century