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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
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Ken Hornstein |
Subject: |
Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:54:34 -0400 |
> > So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the
> > distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never
> > understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other.
>
>i can answer that one.
>
>in the bad old days, if you were working on a slow dialup (300 or
>1200 baud), or, actually, a printing terminal at any speed, you'd
>probably want to invoke ed or ex. if you were working on a
>"high-speed" 9600 baud terminal, you'd likely want vi or emacs etc.
>so a program like mail would offer two escapes (~e vs. ~v) to let yo
>invoke either.
So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed was
9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd use
EDITOR? I could believe that (although from memory I don't recall vi
being that bad at 2400 baud, but it was a while ago!).
--Ken
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, (continued)
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Bakul Shah, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Jon Fairbairn, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Vixie, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Bakul Shah, 2018/03/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/21
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/03/21