Guy Smith  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>vi needs a general overhaul.  When I installed 5.0, I renamed the CSL vi
>(stevie) back to it's original name and PATHed in HP's vi.  I'm surprised
>that our programmers allowed me to escape the building alive.  The woes
>are numerous, but for me the major defect is it's inablility to handle
>any screen format aside from 80X24.  I tend to keep Reflection in 132X40,
>which Qedit handles well with a single SET command.  I can find nothing
>under vi's :set that makes it behave in this environment.
 
Before running vi do:
 
        export LINES=40 COLUMNS=132
 
>24) Fix the shell.  It is slow and mangles keystrokes when PC type-ahead is
>enabled.
 
Well, MPE is the slow thing here.  It has trouble with programmes that
try to read one character at time.  If setting HPTYPEAHEAD doesn't work,
then try disabling command line editting in the shell (set +o vi), that
way the shell will only try to read one line at a time.
 
>26) HP should included some non-POSIX extentions found in HP-UX so
>mixed platform HP shops have a more unified environment (ll comes to mind).
 
ll is simple to impliment as shell script:
 
        /bin/ls -l "$@"
 
or better as a shell function:
 
        ll() {
                ls -l "$@"
        }
 
                                                Ross Ridge
 
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