On 4/7/2017 6:27 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:20:18 +0100, Mike Fleming wrote:
>
>> Sadly for me, vi is my only option - can't access our AIX box other than
>> through a terminal emulator and there's no NFS/Samba shares on it. At my
>> PPoE, I was able to map straight onto a share and used Textpad to edit
>> files, which was a lot quicker way to work for me than using vi.
>>
> I don't know AIX at all, so question: does it support SSH and/or FTP? If
> so, it might be a pain, but you could at least suck files files back to
> you local box to do large and/or multi-file extensive edits of the type
> that involve moving large chunks of text between files.
>
> If you're allowed to install another editor you could consider trying
> microEmacs, which runs in a standard Xterm window. This usually emulates
> VT-220, but as it uses termcap, it can be easily ported to almost any
> system with a C compiler: my OS-9 system used a physical Wyse 160
> terminal. It is easily configurable (its configuration file allows macros
> to be defined and called) and, relevant for this discussion, the number
> of files it cam edit at once is only limited by process memory and of
> course it can cut and paste between files and spawn shells if you need
> them. I first met it as the standard system editor on Microware's OS-9
> real-time OS and have ported it to everything from MSDOS and early
> Windows versions to Linux via a few other UNIXs. My customised
> configuration file has worked in all these environments without any
> changes being needed.
>
> And, to stay on topic, its my standard editor on my RPi as well as on my
> Fedora boxes.

What is with all the BS of adding a simple line at the end of a post to
use the three letters, "rpi" as if that makes it any better when posting
off topic?

If you are going to post off topic, at least mark your post OT and it
would be better if you moved it to a new thread.

Personally I don't care so much, but I've seen half a dozen posts that
cop out at the end and add a footnote to make them somehow "compliant".
What is the point of making an OT post longer with a mention of the
Raspberry Pi when the entire post has nothing to do with the rPi?

This isn't intended to be about Martin, as I said, I've seen a number of
these posts in this thread.

Ok, rant over.  Feel free to ignore me.  :S

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Rick C

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