Aucbonyx.249
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:Onyx:jmrubin
Mon Feb 1 16:28:44 1982
Resubmission of more suggestion
The following is being resubmitted at the request of Mark Plotnick
at MIT (eagle!mitccc!mp) who complained about the top being chopped off.
The version of more which I'm using allows you to go into vi at a more
prompt, if you're more'ing a file. It looks for vi in a specific place.
This has two problems.
(1) If you have a brain-damaged (or hard-copy) terminal,
or your $TERM/$TERMCAP variable isn't set correctly, vi may semi-bomb,
depending on which version of vi you're using. (If it's a nice
version, it will just go into open mode automatically.)
(2) If you have a free login which mores a file, you give
it the ability to fork a shell from vi. (shell escapes tend to die
otherwise--since more looks at your $SHELL variable.) (Of course,
you can pipe the file into more--which destroys the ability to go
into vi.)
Suggestion: (1) more should use your shell with the -c
(or maybe -cf) flag to find vi. This would also be nice if vi moves,
or if a new version becomes available in a non-standard place.
(2) Maybe it should use some environmental
varialbe to find which visual editor you like to use--maybe you
like a version of emacs or teco, instead.
(3) If you're on a bad terminal, it should
use ex, or something similarly non-visual.
Joel Rubin
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