[comp.emacs] running vi inside GNU emacs

dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL (05/08/89)

I'm making this query on behalf of a friend who's trying desparately
to be productive in a System V environment. :-)  He's got emacs on one
machine, but frequently has to edit files on other systems.  Lacking
job control :-(, he'd like to be able to run vi from inside emacs.
He's tried terminal-emulator, but says vi can't handle the non-vt100
emacs buffer.

Any help would be appreciated.  Neither of us knows much about System
V.

-Dave (dsill@relay.nswc.mavy.mil)

tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (05/09/89)

In article <39621@bbn.COM> dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL writes:
dsill> I'm making this query on behalf of a friend who's trying desparately
dsill> to be productive in a System V environment. :-)  He's got emacs on one
dsill> machine, but frequently has to edit files on other systems.  Lacking
dsill> job control :-(, he'd like to be able to run vi from inside emacs.
dsill> He's tried terminal-emulator, but says vi can't handle the non-vt100
dsill> emacs buffer.

Is it possible that ftp-find-file would be helpful here?  Can he ftp
to those machines?  (I suppose so, if he has already connected to them
from within Emacs.)  When you save an ftp-found file it writes it back
the sam way it got it.  Or is there more to the problem than this?

Dave
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