Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ctrl-c
Keywords: messing up elm when used in vi
Message-ID: <5425@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 27 May 89 16:03:23 GMT
References: <464@cybaswan.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <464@cybaswan.UUCP> cs9h7atw@cybaswan.UUCP (Alex Williams) writes:
+
+Hello,
+	has anyone a tip about why if we use ctrl-c for escape in vi when elm
+brings it up that elm should say 
+
+	"Problems invoking editor /usr/ucb/vi"

This message will occur when the shell that ELM executes for your editor
exits with non zero. Could it be that you have ^C set as your interrupt signal,
and that your shell is not ignoring it and dying and therefore not terminating
normally?
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