Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-09 Thread taylorcc
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:47:28AM +, James wrote: ahh, that's a thing, what're te VI keys if your arrows don't work? h=left j=down k=up l=right also if you do not already know ... Ctrl-D=jumps down half a page (i think this is the right amount) Ctrl-U=jumps up half a page (")

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-09 Thread James [on his mailserver]
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Marc Evelyn wrote: Nah. They use ed. there's bits of that in VI, :q! and all that stuff. is it as bad as edlin?

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-09 Thread Glynn Clements
James [on his mailserver] wrote: Nah. They use ed. there's bits of that in VI, :q! and all that stuff. All of vi's `:' commands are ex commands. is it as bad as edlin? Edlin is an ed clone. Obviously, ed isn't as newbie-friendly as a visual editor. OTOH, it does work on hardcopy

Re: Nothing to do with C programming [Was: Re: Newbie Header Q's]

1998-11-08 Thread Glynn Clements
James wrote: - And the `info` proggy seems to works well (like emacs info mode at least) - once you learn to use it ;-... - -Except that none of the versions which I've seen recognise the cursor -keys. ahh, that's a thing, what're te VI keys if your arrows don't work? we've got these

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-08 Thread Glynn Clements
James wrote: - int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) this one's new to me... don't tell me, **envp points to a string of all the environment variables.. Yep. It should be identical to the global variable `environ'. -- Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-07 Thread Glynn Clements
Andrew Philip Bell wrote: No argument here, but for non (X/Lucid/whatever)Emacs users, tkinfo is very nicely done -- perhaps even Emacs users should check it out for info files. I haven't used tkinfo, so don't construe this as any kind of criticism, but it's almost inconceivable that an

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-07 Thread Glynn Clements
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: still. Beyond that, I don't really use any applications other than XEmacs. And your favourite compiler/interpreter (at least if you don' t use elisp all the time ;-. OK, I should have said `interactive applications'. Everything else gets run in a shell-mode

Re: Newbie Header Q's

1998-11-06 Thread Glynn Clements
Ken wrote: void main() DOH! DOH! DOH! DOH! If the book you have claims to teach "ANSI C", burn it. int main() As we're on the ANSI C track, that should be int main(void) or int main(int argc, char **argv) or int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) Just