From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:47:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_Snxmzo51xafeT4cO8xtQW-Pcj93odbhY5EJpHpxW8jJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2007070714330.455@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> There was also the client we had in PNG, where access was via a flakey
> 1200 modem i.e. no error correction, and VI was out of the question.
>
The old 'o' command (which does the same as 'vi' in vim) was designed for
that situation, provided your terminal isn't a printing one. A one-line
window is cheap enough; backspace and carriage-return give you
everything you need.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound free-range chickens (except they have
teeth, arms instead of wings, and dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-06 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-03 20:52 Adam Thornton
2020-07-03 21:26 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-03 22:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-04 0:28 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-04 0:31 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-04 19:33 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-04 20:02 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-04 21:58 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-05 5:42 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-03 22:50 ` John Cowan
2020-07-04 16:33 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-04 18:34 ` John Cowan
2020-07-04 18:44 ` Jon Forrest
2020-07-04 19:34 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-06 4:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 4:18 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-06 6:51 ` arnold
2020-07-06 7:11 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2020-07-06 13:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-06 18:51 ` John Cowan
2020-07-06 19:19 ` arnold
2020-07-06 19:36 ` John Cowan
2020-07-06 19:58 ` John Cowan
2020-07-06 20:48 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-07 6:21 ` arnold
2020-07-10 5:05 ` Win Treese
2020-07-10 5:19 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-14 2:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 21:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-07 6:23 ` arnold
2020-07-07 21:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 21:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 21:47 ` John Cowan [this message]
2020-07-07 1:30 ` [TUHS] Editors (was: v7 uucp debugging help requested) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-07-04 0:35 [TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested Norman Wilson
2020-07-07 19:20 Norman Wilson
2020-07-07 22:47 ` Rob Pike
2020-07-07 23:42 ` Adam Thornton
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