On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:41:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these > > days... when was the last time you actually used a line editor > > interactively? > > It's been a couple years, but I've been known to use it to fix a > broken system... 8^)
I've done that, but mainly on HP-UX. Some UNIX workstations have severely non-functional text consoles, or rather the vendors fail to include proper termcap/terminfo entries. For what it's worth, by default Solaris CDE sets $EDITOR to dtpad (dtpad is to CDE what notepad is to Windows), and $VISUAL isn't set at all. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
