On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Yury Burkatovsky wrote: >Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:16:17 +0300 (IDT) >From: Yury Burkatovsky <tby@telrad.co.il> >Reply-To: Yury Burkatovsky <yury.burkatovsky@telrad.co.il> >To: trn-workers@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: TRN: in reply (vi), line-nums are pale-yellow, > *impossible* to read > >Hi David, > >This is no way a TRN related topic. > >If you have an X window environment on your desktop, you could use any of >the plenty of available X-window oriented editors, including GNU freeware. > >I personally tossed dtterm out and switched to xterm long ago, mostly due >to its better mouse support. Anyway, *term is only needed for running old >terminal-oriented applications while there are editors that create windows >of their own. Umm, you seem to miss the fact that some of us *prefer* using "old terminal- oriented applications". If you're against it, why are you running trn? (I'm typing this in vim, launched from pine.. from an ssh session I started on Mac OS X..) I've been vaguely interested in trying out GUI versions of vim once in a while, mostly to allow use of an "external editor" in GUI programs that wouldn't be able to launch vim. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390
