DOS-like text editors / FTE

[Frank McCormick]

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On Tue, 16 May 2006 12:07:24 +0700
Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 21:53 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> >   I know that feeling - what I found and settled on (it's 
> >   in the Ubuntu repositories)  is FTE, runs from X, a console or a
> >    shell. Syntax highlighting, drop-down menues CUA compatible
> >   everything I want or need.
> 
> Nice!! Only thing is that it shows weird characters where I guess it
> should be showing 'lines'  (in the menus, etc.)
> 
> Any thoughts on how it can use the right character set for that?


  I would suspect its a character set problem. I used to have the same problem with
Midnight Commander -- I had to change shells to urxvt. But FTE doesn't give me any problems.
As to access to /dev/vcsa*, I just changed the permissions. I have no idea whether its a security hole but on my box I am the only user and I'm behind a firewall.

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Cheers

Frank

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