Re: RFE: honor 'eol' setting regardless of 'binary' flag.

Hi Tim!

On Mo, 14 Jul 2014, Tim Chase wrote:

> On 2014-07-14 10:44, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > | The vi (visual) utility is a screen-oriented *text* editor. Only
> > the | open and visual modes of the editor are described in
> > POSIX.1-2008;
>
> Just as an aside, this is about the worst quote you could pull, as
> Vim *doesn't* support open mode. ;-)
>
> :help :open
>
> """
> Vim does not support open mode, since it's not really useful. For
> those situations where ":open" would start open mode Vim will leave
> Ex mode, which allows executing the same commands, but updates the
> whole screen instead of only one line.
> """
>
> The only time I've needed/wanted open mode was when running it in an
> obscure Dos environment with a virtual keyboard that obscured most
> of the screen, and Vim's terminal handling expected too much of the
> underlying ANSI drivers.

What exactly does open mode? I tried it in nvi, but whatever I tried, I
just got an error message.

Best,
Christian
--
Man denkt, jeder gehe dahin, wohin man geht.
-- Jean Paul

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