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Subject: Re: VLT and VI - DOn't Work very Well
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Date: 11 Feb 91 19:55:27 GMT
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       As to the >> marks in the menu to indicate submenus, sorry, but that's
in the new 2.0 "Style Guide" and is "blessed by a higher authority". 8)
       If you have any problems with vi that can't be fixed by changing
some of the "Operation" settings, send me a capture file of a session
where it goes wrong, with a not explaining what you're doing. I don't
have access to a UNIX system (and I don't want to either and if I did
you wouldn't catch me dead using vi...) so that's why I ask for a capture
file.
       To make your blinker impervious to the escape key make it like this:

      $blinker: cursorh 0; delay .3; cursorh 2; delay .3; goto $blinker

The trick is the $ sign that starts the label. Such scripts can only be
stopped by cancelling them explicitly by name. Now that the script is
impervious to the escape key, the escape key will do its normal job, namely
send an escape.

       Willy.
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