These are nice terminals, but do I have to use vi?

The vi editor works on any terminal, since it only uses standard keys for all it's functions. However, vi is hard for beginners and does not take advantages of the facilities of the X-terminals. There are at least two other choices for an editor that you may consider:

pico

This is the editor used by pine. It is still character based, but it is simple and self documenting. There is always a menu at the bottom to tell you the 12 most useful control keys.

textedit

This is the editor that comes with Sun's Deskset package. This is a full mouse oriented editor with drag & drop, copy & paste, pop-up menus, search & replace functions, etc.

If you want to use pico on the X-terminals, then add the line

   xmodmap -e 'keycode 113 = KP_Decimal Delete'
to your .xsession file. Add the following lines to your .alias file (or .cshrc file) 
   if $?DISPLAY then
     alias pine 'xterm -name pico -title "Pine Mail" -e pine &'
     alias pico 'xterm -name pico  -e pico \!* &'
   endif
If you want to use the textedit program you should set up your environment to be compatible with the Deskset package.

University of Delaware
June 19, 1994