> > So since you were there ... I never did understand the point (or the > > distinction) between VISUAL and EDITOR. More specifically, I never > > understood when you were supposed to use one versus the other. > >i can answer that one. > >in the bad old days, if you were working on a slow dialup (300 or >1200 baud), or, actually, a printing terminal at any speed, you'd >probably want to invoke ed or ex. if you were working on a >"high-speed" 9600 baud terminal, you'd likely want vi or emacs etc. >so a program like mail would offer two escapes (~e vs. ~v) to let yo >invoke either.
So ... I guess programs would look at the terminal and if your speed was 9600 baud or greater, you'd use VISUAL, and if it was slower you'd use EDITOR? I could believe that (although from memory I don't recall vi being that bad at 2400 baud, but it was a while ago!). --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
