Re: [TUHS] vi on v7

[Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>]

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On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:35 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:33 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Well, hallelujah, after much travail (I've tried this every Christmas for
>> at least 5 years now), I have succeeded in building vi on v7 from 2bsd. Had
>> to patch the c compiler to enlarge the symbol table, tweak some stuff here
>> and there, but it finally built and installed without any errors, yay.
>>
>> Now, I just want it to do some editing, preferably in visual mode. I can
>> call it as ex or vi:
>>
>> # ex
>> :
>>
>> or
>>
>> # vi
>>
>> :
>>
>> and q will exit, yay, again!
>>
>> I have at least two problems:
>> 1. It's not going "full" screen, even with TERM=vt100 or TERM=ansi set
>> (not that I was surprised, but it'd be nice)...
>>
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> What does /etc/termcap look like?
>

Doh! Hit send too fast


> 2. If I type a for append and type something, there's no way to get back
>> to the : prompt (ESC doesn't seem to work).
>>
>
Sounds like the timeout code for the terminal input isn't working (it's
what it uses to tell a ESC from a ESC [ A for example.


> 3. I'd like manpages (figure they might help with the above), but they're
>> on the tape as .u files?
>>
>
No clue there. Are the .u files nroff by chance?

Warner


> I'm hoping this triggers some, oh yeah I remember that, type responses.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Will
>>
>>
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