On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:33 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> 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?


> 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).
> 3. I'd like manpages (figure they might help with the above), but they're
> on the tape as .u files?
>
> I'm hoping this triggers some, oh yeah I remember that, type responses.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
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