Re: [vile] missing initial one-line help

[Paul Fox]

thomas wrote:
 > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:05:40PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
 > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
 > > > there's a problem with startup messages that i don't understand,
 > > > after a few minutes looking at the code.
 > > > 
 > > > when vile starts, it's supposed to show this message (main.c:945)
 > > >  msg = "[Use ^A-h, ^X-h, or :help to get help]";
 > 
 > This message was obscured sometime before 9.4 (I just checked).
 > So it's been a while - wasn't the vileopts change.
 > I could dig further and see, but that's still a while ago.
 > 
 > However, since the string's still there, I'm reasonably sure it was
 > unintentional - just surprised that it took a while to notice.

heh.  yeah, that was a while ago.  i guess i don't actually need
the help much.  :-)   it was funny when i remembered it, thinking
to myself, "hey, didn't vile have a little help phrase on startup?
hmm, no it doesn't seem to...".  amusing.

 > 
 > I've made changes in my ongoing fixes to restore those in the
 > normal flow - will see how those work out.

okay.  clearly not a big deal!

paul
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