smolin@cup.portal.com (Steve Jacob Molin) (12/17/89)
Has anyone done the editor vi on the ST? -steve smolin@portal
chrisl@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Chris Parkin Lilley) (12/21/89)
In article <25120@cup.portal.com> smolin@cup.portal.com (Steve Jacob Molin) writes: >Has anyone done the editor vi on the ST? > Yes. It's called Stevie (ST VI?). I'm not sure where you'd be able to get it from, though. I got my copy from the University of Lancaster, UK, via a friend. I've only used it a little bit, and well, it's OK, but the major reasons for using it in my eyes aren't yet implemented. There is no global change facility ('ex'-type command), and the undo facility isn't implemented yet. There are large chunks missing, really. It's also very slow at doing inserts. I guess it's OK if you're hell-bent on using 'vi', but I prefer to use micro-emacs (currently 3.8b, shortly to be 3.10) for the simple reason that it's *much* more fully implemented. Does anyone else know where Steve could get hold of Stevie in the US? I've only got a binary, by the way. If necessary, I guess I could uuencode, compress & post it. Any takers? -Chrisl. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Parkin Lilley, CS1.2, BT Fulcrum, UK chrisl@uk.co.bt.fulcrum
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (12/24/89)
In article <=&?QF%@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> chrisl@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Chris Parkin Lilley) writes: >In article <25120@cup.portal.com> smolin@cup.portal.com (Steve Jacob Molin) writes: >>Has anyone done the editor vi on the ST? > Yes. It's called Stevie (ST VI?). I was unable to respond to the original posting, but there are several vi's for the ST. In addition to STevie, I have a vi clone that came (I think) in a large package of Unix-style utilities. I can't get mail through to Molin, but the uuencoded file is available from ...!dalcs!biomel!bill if you can reach it. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET
stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey) (12/27/89)
In article <1989Dec24.150413.28500@cs.dal.ca> bill@biomel.UUCP writes: >In article <=&?QF%@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> chrisl@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Chris Parkin Lilley) writes: >>In article <25120@cup.portal.com> smolin@cup.portal.com (Steve Jacob Molin) writes: >>>Has anyone done the editor vi on the ST? > >> Yes. It's called Stevie (ST VI?). > ST Editor (for) VI Enthusiasts it started out as a minix program, but it is portable to DOS and other environments. Also a program called "lv" (little vi?) is in the public domain and available from some ftp sites in Michigan. > >-- INET stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov UUCP {backbone}!dftsrv!iris613!stailey