sort question

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon May 17 11:48:59 PDT 2004


On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 03:04, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Quoth Keith Morse:
> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > 
> > > Where is the vi version of 'info'?
> > 
> > I don't think there is one.  "sort" is a gnu tools and info tends to be 
> > the default "man page" like tool for most, if not all, gnu tools.  As vim 
> > "typically the most common incantation of vi on a linux host" is it's own 
> > seperate project independent of gnu, I don't think there is a info form of 
> > it's man page.  
> 
> I think Roger's question was where is there a version of info that
> supports vi-style keystrokes. That said, your answer (none) is, naytheless,
> correct.

That was, indeed, the question. I am a vi(m) user. Tried and true.
vi is rather capable. I would imagine that implementing info in it would
be a bit too much. It was just idle curiosity. That and what ever
happened to the vi mode for KDE editing? I lost track of that one.





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