[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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