[olug] email a binary file (uuencode no longer popular?)

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 20:23:15 UTC 2007


On 8/21/07, George Neill <georgen at neillnet.com> wrote:
>
> You are not the only one.  I also use vi on the command line, 'set -o vi'
> in
> bash.
>
> Later,
> George.


Brian, you are not the only one who uses hjkl, but i sure hope the only one
who has a green screen in the can.  Do you have a Japanese toilet with a
serial interface or something.

George, i happened to come across a reference to something like that via
"man bash" last night.   Does that mean that ESC SHIFT A will move the
keyboard cursor to end of the line and put you in Insert mode?  Does it mean
ESC dw will delete the next complete word?  Stuff like that?


On 8/21/07, Brian Roberson <roberson at olug.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > So am I the only dinosaur left that still uses elm as my primary
> > > email client?  I just can't bear to stop using vi to compose emails.
> >
> > I've always been a big mutt user specifically for this reason - vi is
> the
> > default editor in mutt, and it uses a lot of the same kb commands to
> move
> > trough the index/etc.... Guess you could call me a green screener, which
> > is funny 'cause at one time I actually had an IBM 3151 in my bathroom,
> > yes, serially connected... I am also probably the only person I know
> that
> > that uses j and k instead of those silly up and down arrow keys :)
> >
> >
> >
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