On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > some version of vi is essential on a rescue disk, regardless of what some > > > windows using loudmouth happens to think (and no, i'm not referring to > > > you here joseph). > > > > That's just silly. If someone can figure out vi, they really ought to be > > able to figure out how to use an editor with on-screen help. We're not > > forcing anyone to write a book with it, just use it for a couple of > > seconds in an emergency. > > > > > ae is fine except for the vi emulation mode. it does the job, a simple > > > no-frills no-features text editor. > > > > I disagree: I think it's still more complicated than it needs to be. > > Complicated? > > > E.g., the big block of commands at the upper left is a bit too > > cluttered. > > Upper left? You _are_ refering to the help screen aren't you? This screen > coveres the top third of the screen, and includes every operation ae will > perform. How would you suggest that I make it less "cluttered"? > > The phrase, "a bit too cluttered" is not something I can convert into a > patch ;-)
remove this help stuff, and have just some sort of help binding that will bring it up. That would be nicer, and let more space for editign. > > > The prompts sometimes leave something to be desired (When I > > type ^X^C after changing a file, why does the prompt have n^H at the end > > of it?) > > This is a bug that both the author and myself have been unable to resolve. > It seems to be an artifact of key encoding, but, since the error isn't > obvious, it could just as easily be caused by something else (like a > curses difficulty of a completely different nature). As it is only visual > cruft, and doesn't effect the opperation of the program, I have not been > too frantic about it... yes, but someone who is editing his systems config file file be distrustfull to such garbage. > > > And it _is_ possible for people to get trapped in ae--but people > > While this was true for several "broken" releases of ae, this has not been > possible for a long time. The reason this missinformation remains in play > for so long is that folks continue to use old, broken rescue disks. The > current version of ae does not suffer from this problem, and hasn't for > some time. Sure this happened to me a long time ago, didn't try ae since because of it though. > > > are able to escape ee by typing the escape key and answering the > > prompts. > > <cntrl> Q works in ae. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
