question re: vi within curses
Andy Cowan
cowan at edsews.EDS.COM
Thu Sep 1 23:38:26 AEST 1988
I'm using:
Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.4
I want:
To have an input screen with a vi session on the screen for inputting
text, with other input fields/instructions on other parts of the screen.
This should be done using curses so that it will operate on ascii tubes.
Is this possible? Everything I've tried leads me to think that vi is
a screen hog. I can fork and make a 'system' call to execute VI, but
it grabs the whole screen, even if I've created subwindows using
curses.
If anyone has code/hints/answers, please email to me. I'll post my
results.
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