disallowing subshell in More
vip at philabs.UUCP
vip at philabs.UUCP
Thu Feb 14 08:31:00 AEST 1985
>It's beginning to look like the law of diminishing returns is taking
>effect - you might want to write a simple pager that doesn't do anything
>other than page files. (I didn't even think about "more"s escape to "vi",
>because I never use it - that's one problem with big programs with a large
>set of features that few people are 100% familiar with.) Try "p", shown
>in Kernighan and Pike starting on p. 180.
>
> Guy Harris
> {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
>/* ---------- */
Okay, Guy, great. But what if you want your users to use a program like
vi? Then what? I would like users to be able to use an editor. Vi and
most other editors, with the exception of some of the third-party
(expensive) stuff, allow the user to escape to a shell.
Brian M. Day
philabs!exquisit!brian
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