filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Dec 6 15:09:26 PST 2010


Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
> > But under Unix - I just get a 'line too long' when trying to vi the menu
> 
> Again, "don't do that".  Vi is a text editor, and menus are not text files.

Technically, wrong.  Not on linux, where it's really vim.  Vim can handle
binaries.  I advise `vim -b filename` though, so you're -definitely- and
explicitly in binary mode.  Vim is a little odd in what modes it assumes,
depending on what argv[0] is when it's invoked.

Used to be a day I'd have agreed with you, Ken.  I'd have recommended
emacs.  But vim has come a long way from vi.  I've used it to edit binary
files more than a few times, as I never even install emacs anymore.  I
don't have the patience to re-learn it. :/ I still use emacs key bindings
in my shell, as I hate multi-modal shell interpreters, but that's about
all I do anymore that has to do with emacs. :( Pity, as it really was/is a
great editor.

mark->
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