On Jul 23, 12:13 pm, björn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, I've never even used the :open command myself. Judging from the > help file it doesn't seem very useful either!
Ah, good old "open" mode :) I used to use this (in real vi) occasionally, back in the late 80's, when we'd occasionally run into a system with mangled termcap entries, or on the other end of a slow/ noisy modem line, where we urgently needed to edit some configuration files. It was sorta halfway between line-oriented "ex" and screen-oriented "vi", giving you effectively a one-line vi window at the bottom of the terminal screen, that was enough to get changes made "under fire", while also being very efficient about number of characters sent over the wire. It was quite useful in odd situations back then; now it's little more than a curiosity. BTW, I hadn't known about ":find"; I've always used ":e" to edit new/ different files. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
