Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: running vi inside GNU emacs Message-ID: Date: 8 May 89 20:29:26 GMT References: <39621@bbn.COM> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: comp Lines: 16 In-reply-to: dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL's message of 8 May 89 15:33:28 GMT In article <39621@bbn.COM> dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL writes: dsill> I'm making this query on behalf of a friend who's trying desparately dsill> to be productive in a System V environment. :-) He's got emacs on one dsill> machine, but frequently has to edit files on other systems. Lacking dsill> job control :-(, he'd like to be able to run vi from inside emacs. dsill> He's tried terminal-emulator, but says vi can't handle the non-vt100 dsill> emacs buffer. Is it possible that ftp-find-file would be helpful here? Can he ftp to those machines? (I suppose so, if he has already connected to them from within Emacs.) When you save an ftp-found file it writes it back the sam way it got it. Or is there more to the problem than this? Dave -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu