question about vi

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.UUCP
Fri May 13 23:05:56 AEST 1988


In article <730001 at hpfelg.HP.COM> lls at hpfelg.HP.COM (Lauri Schaaf) writes:
...
...
...
...When using mailx and writing a memo...
...you can use " ~v " -- this will put
...you into vi mode for your memo....

Actually, it invokes whatever is defined for the environmental variable
VISUAL.  I happen to use emacs.



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