In article <3AB6161A.3EA9@ed.ac.uk>,
Stephen Isard <S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk> writes:
> kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com wrote:
>
>> (pause ...) I've just done `man console` and was thusly provoked to do
>> `man console_codes`. There *is* some kind of insert mode, but I can only
>> see how to turn it on: it's supposed to be off by default.
>
> Thanks very much, Chris, that looks like a good line of enquiry and I'll
> pursue it.
>
> Did you try running ved in your console? Do you get the same effect
> that I do?
No, I get a completely different effect (having just tried it). All the
ved output goes to the bottom line of the screen, nowhere else. Normally
I use xved in my KDE environment, so I'm not hot on consoles.
Incidentally my console session had $TERM=linux, I don't know if that
makes any difference.
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Chris "and this is being edited in 'vi', spit" Dollin
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