[comp.sys.atari.st] How to get Elvis to work?

rcb@netcom.UUCP (Roy Bixler) (02/04/91)

This may sound silly, but has anyone out there gotten Elvis to work on
the ST?  My problem is that, when I invoke (provoke?) Elvis, I always
get the message 'unrecognized TERM type'.  I am running with Gulam v.
1.04.05 with the TERM variable set to 'st', the TERMCAP variable
containing the termcap entry for 'st' and an \etc\termcap file with an
entry for 'st'.  This same setup works with GNU Emacs and the
recently-posted less v. 97 (and no, I'm not running Mint either!).  I
got my version of Elvis from panarthea.  Any ideas?  I even tried to
run without the TERM variable, just got kicked out again with 'TERM
variable must be set'.  Talk about Catch-22!

Thanks for any help,
Roy Bixler

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jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) (02/04/91)

rcb@netcom.UUCP (Roy Bixler) writes:

>This may sound silly, but has anyone out there gotten Elvis to work on
>the ST?  My problem is that, when I invoke (provoke?) Elvis, I always
>get the message 'unrecognized TERM type'.  I am running with Gulam v.
>1.04.05 with the TERM variable set to 'st', the TERMCAP variable
>containing the termcap entry for 'st' and an \etc\termcap file with an
>entry for 'st'.  This same setup works with GNU Emacs and the
>recently-posted less v. 97 (and no, I'm not running Mint either!).  I
>got my version of Elvis from panarthea.  Any ideas?  I even tried to
>run without the TERM variable, just got kicked out again with 'TERM
>variable must be set'.  Talk about Catch-22!

It must be set to "vt52".


Jan van der Steen


BTW.
    I know someone is currently working on the ST port of elvis-1.4.
    (The version that you are running is version 1.3).
    I don't know whether and when he will post to comp.*.atari.st though.
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     Jan van der Steen                 jansteen@cwi.nl
     Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
     Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

wao@cbnewsm.att.com (william.a.oswald) (02/06/91)

After setting the TERM to vt52 you will still get a message that
states that it can't open some temp file. If you press <return> you
get your file anyway. This only happens to me if I run ELVIS from
GEM. In GULAM (alias vi=elvis) the program starts right up.
By the way how do you turn on line numbers in ELVIS. The VI command
[:set num] does not work.

Bill Oswald
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