On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> > What about trying to connext to X server, and if an error, do it in
> > terminal mode.
>
> Which would result in opening X connections when working on the
> console. No, tha
--On Wed, May 6, 1998 1:45 am +0200 "Remco Blaakmeer"
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> On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>> >
>> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determinin
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
>
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether
> > or
> > > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggest
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> > > configuration situations that
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> > configuration situations that break the method.
>
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
[snip]
I guess I should learn to read faster since it has already been mentioned
many times.
Anand
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> configuration situations that break the method.
How about just checking for the existance of the DISPLAY vari
> > > Test $DISPLAY, it's the Right Way to test for X.
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 08:24:50PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > But not the right way to test for xterm.
Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If $DISPLAY is set you're either in an xterm, rxvt, or kvt. As far as ae
> would care,
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 08:24:50PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Test $DISPLAY, it's the Right Way to test for X.
>
> But not the right way to test for xterm.
If $DISPLAY is set you're either in an xterm, rxvt, or kvt. As far as ae
would care, these are one and the same.
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:42:39PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > >There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > >not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> > >configuration situations t
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would be wrong with having the "non-x" ae tell you in the help
> screen what you need to run to get xterm support? The need for this
> xterm support comes from folks who want to administer a base system
> remotely from a system using an xterm. This is
Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Test $DISPLAY, it's the Right Way to test for X.
But not the right way to test for xterm.
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:...
> >There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> >not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> >configuration situations that break the method.
>
> When you start an xterm,
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:42:39PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> >There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> >not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> >configuration situations that break the method.
>
> When you start an xterm, TER
Dale Scheetz wrote:...
>There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
>not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
>configuration situations that break the method.
When you start an xterm, TERM is set to xterm; why not test for that?
The troub
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ln -s '/bin/ae -f /etc/aex.rc' xae
> >
> > and, while it seemed to build the link I desired (it looks good with ls
> > -l) when I try to execute xae, bash tells me the file is not found.
> >
> > Any idea wha
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ln -s '/bin/ae -f /etc/aex.rc' xae
>
> and, while it seemed to build the link I desired (it looks good with ls
> -l) when I try to execute xae, bash tells me the file is not found.
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
That's only going to work if yo
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The reason I feel compelled to ask is that I will be creating two new
> > names: xvi and xae.
>
> xvi, intuitively, seems to refer to an x aware version of vi (elvis or
> vim). How about xaevi?
A bit bulky ;-)
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason I feel compelled to ask is that I will be creating two new
> names: xvi and xae.
xvi, intuitively, seems to refer to an x aware version of vi (elvis or
vim). How about xaevi?
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I am very close to having all of the ae problems solved, thanks to Jim
Minta for both taking over the slang package and for the fine suggestions
and patches that he has supplied for ae.
I'm down to the xterm .rc file problem, and I have an idea that I thought
I would toss out for discusion.
There
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