When Unix Stops Being Fun

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:57:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 
> All this that I described above, and even more, I can do in Emacs or vim.
> Using the system vi(1) on Solaris isn't a problem either, but I don't push
> myself to use *THAT* editor if I don't have to.  I stopped using vi(1) on
> Solaris when messages like this became annoying:
> 
>       sun2# stty columns 190
>       sun2# \vi
>       Terminal too wide
>       :

Ah -- yes.  That brings back memories.  Trying to use sdiff(1) on
Solaris.  Where you want your terminal to be as wide as possible so
you can display the files you're diffing side by side, but you can't
use emacs(1) as your $EDITOR because the way it shuffles around copies
of the files to keep a backup version confuses sdiff(1).  Better hope
that the stuff you're diffing is less that 66 columns wide, so you can
fit it in the maximum 132 columns that Solaris vi permits.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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