On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:49:41PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:00:02PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: > > Yes, but the point is that it is not installed by default. The only visual > > editor installed by default is vi, or some clone of it, so you have to > > know at least a little vi to get along in situations where everything else > > isn't there. > One still occasionally encounters terminals which are incapable of running > vi (the Hercules console for example).
I'm not sure this is a limitation of Hercules so much as it is a limitation of the HMC command/reply interface which it emulates. Can you run vi on the HMC? If so, then we should enhance Hercules to allow that as well...
