Previously, I wrote: >> If you agree with my traditional usage summary, vim would not be >> suitable because it does not implement open mode and is thus pretty >> unusable on dumb terminals.
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies: > Yes it would: if you invoke vim as ex, ... hit Q while in vim it > will switch to ex-mode which is perfectly usable on dumb terminals. You're quite right, of course. I had overlooked ex-mode since I don't use it. (Hmm, it might be nice if vim entered ex-mode automatically on dumb terminals.) > vim as ex, supply the -e option Which reraises the issue of a few weeks ago about whether or not EDITOR and PAGER should be able to include options (and possibly shell metacharacters). Currently, at least for PAGER, various programs parse the value of PAGER differently; so I think it would be good for Debian policy to specify the format of the value of these environment variables. -ccwf
