Previously Charles C. Fu wrote: > You're quite right, of course. I had overlooked ex-mode since I don't > use it. (Hmm, it might be nice if vim entered ex-mode automatically > on dumb terminals.) vim defaults to a builtin ANSI terminal these days, which is probably a more reasonable choice considering modern systems. Besides, people who know ex should also know the Q-command :) > Which reraises the issue of a few weeks ago about whether or not > EDITOR and PAGER should be able to include options (and possibly shell > metacharacters). There are some reasonable default options, like +# that are expected to be handled correctly by VISUAL, so I guess parameters are allowed. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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