On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:35 PM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:33 PM Will Senn wrote: > >> 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)... >> > > 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 >> >> >> >>