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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi editor enhancement request
Keywords: vi display
Message-ID: <5200@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 00:57:26 GMT
References: <456@tron.UUCP>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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In-reply-to: wali@tron.UUCP (Saleem Wali)

In article <456@tron.UUCP>, wali@tron (Saleem Wali) writes:
|  Now that I have your attention.............
|  (vi editor) Is there anyone who knows of a utility which allows "vi" to
|  display various information, e.g., the filename, time, and
|  whether I am in the insert mode or in the command mode, at the top of 
|  the screen.

yeah, have your sysadm do "mv /usr/local/emacs /usr/ucb/vi" :-)

Otherwise, no luck.  You can press ^G a lot, but that doesn't really
help.  To find out if you are in insert mode, hit ESC, and if it
doesn't beep, you *were* in insert mode.

What can I say, it's "vi".  (or is that "vee-eye"?? :-)

Just another satisfied GNU-EMACS (former vi) user,
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