Annotation of researchv10no/lbin/Mail/manual/cmds/visual, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .ip \fBvisual\fP
                      2: It is often useful to be able to invoke one of two editors,
                      3: based on the type of terminal one is using.  To invoke
                      4: a display oriented editor, you can use the
                      5: .b visual
                      6: command.  The operation of the
                      7: .b visual
                      8: command is otherwise identical to that of the
                      9: .b edit
                     10: command.
                     11: .ne 2v+\n(psu
                     12: .sp \n(psu
                     13: Both the
                     14: .b edit
                     15: and
                     16: .b visual
                     17: commands assume some default text editors.  These default editors
                     18: can be overridden by the valued options
                     19: .q EDITOR
                     20: and
                     21: .q VISUAL
                     22: for the standard and screen editors.  You might want to do:
                     23: .(l
                     24: set EDITOR=/usr/ucb/ex VISUAL=/usr/ucb/vi
                     25: .)l

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