Re: Bug#3146: 1.1 installation: ae doesn't work
On Wed, 29 May 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
>I think ae is a good choice for the base disks, and I trust it's maintainer
>to come up with a sensible solution for the ncurses problem.
Thanks for the confidence. I'm currently thinking of aliasing
^R, ^W, and ^C for file-read, file-write, and quit-ask in
/etc/ae.rc, and changing the top-of-screen menu to look like:
File read and write SF3,^R SF4,^W Left, down, up, right arrow keys
exit, abort F10,^C SF10 Word left and right F5 F6
Macros SF2 Page down and up PgDn PgUp
Help on and off F1 Front and end of line SF5 SF6
Version, Redraw SF1 F8 Top and bottom of file Home End
Insert typed keys Delete left and right BACKSPACE DEL
Literal escape INS Block, cut, paste F2 F3 F4
Undo F9 Invert case F7
That'll make the essential ae functionality available for users having
terminals without function keys, as long as $TERM is set OK, and as
long as their terminal has working and properly keymapped arrow keys.
As several persons have mentioned, ae isn't likely to be anybody's
editor of choice. It's there as a small next-to-last-resort editor
(/bin/ed or /bin/sed being the last-resort editors :).
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