[rescue] demime
Jonathan C. Patschke
jp at celestrion.net
Thu Apr 18 01:06:29 CDT 2002
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, James Sharp wrote:
> Tonight, I discovered a really sucky "feature" to the version of "Elvis"
> that comes with Slackware 7....vi an .html file and it tries to render it,
> saying "press ^Wd" to see source.
Yeah. Ain't that special.
> When did it decide that it wanted to be a fuckin web browser?
It started that crap in whatever version was included with Slackware 4.
That's when I made the permanent switch from elvis to vim.
> if I'm loading an .html file with vi, don't you think I want to EDIT
> it, not VIEW it.
Now why the -hell- would you want to edit a file in an editor? Clearly
you meant to view it, otherwise you'd use Nutscrape Composer. Get with
the program.
--Jonathan
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