krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) (10/06/89)
I would love to use vi at home. Is their a public domain version for the ST floating around anywhere? ========================================================================= = = = The Marvel Historian A. Krieg = = = = G.E. Medical Systems - CT - New Berlin, WI = = USENET: krieg@jupiter.med.ge.com = = = =========================================================================
clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) (10/07/89)
In article <1139@mrsvr.UUCP> krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) writes: >I would love to use vi at home. Is their a public domain version for the ST >floating around anywhere? > There is an ST VI editor called STEVIE. It's latest version (I think) is 3.44. I have TRIED to use it, but it constantly crashes on me. The cursor control is the culprit. I run a BBS, and I have tried to use this to edit text files. I always end up rebooting after it crashes and using WordPerfect instead. If anybody knows of any other VI editors that DON'T crash, please let me know! Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology | What I like : BITNET: %clf3678@RITVAX GEnie: C.FREEMESSER | 1) My Atari ST USENET: Just reply and hope it gets through | 2) My '77 Mercury Call the ACORN BBS (716)436-3078, 300/1200 baud | 3) Coke Classic
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (10/07/89)
In article <1382@ultb.UUCP> clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) writes: >In article <1139@mrsvr.UUCP> krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) writes: >>I would love to use vi at home. Is their a public domain version for the ST >>floating around anywhere? > >If anybody knows of any other VI editors that DON'T crash, please let me >know! I have a VI for the ST that works fine. I don't recall whether I have the documentation, and I don't know who wrote it, but I have been using it for a while and it is fine (I usually run it from Gulam, but it works from the desktop too). If no one else has the complete package, I can look for the documentation and either mail it out or repost, depending on the amount of interest. But perhaps one of the archive sites has 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
orc@pell.uucp (david parsons) (10/08/89)
On 6 Oct 89 14:23:11 GMT, krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) wrote: >I would love to use vi at home. Is their a public domain version for the ST >floating around anywhere? Yes, there are at least two: 1) Levee, written by me; it's available on Bix for certain; it may be in some of the archives. 2) Stevi (or some similar name), written by Tony Andrews (?); also available on Bix; I *know it's available on some of the archives, because there was discussion of it a while back. -david parsons
thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) (10/08/89)
orc@pell.uucp (david parsons) writes: >On 6 Oct 89 14:23:11 GMT, krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) wrote: >>I would love to use vi at home. Is their a public domain version for the ST >>floating around anywhere? > 1) Levee, written by me; it's available on Bix for certain; it may be in > some of the archives. David, has Levee been fixed yet? I like it a whole lot (most complete features set I've seen on an ST), but I can't use it if pressing a key during scrolling is going to crash the program and lose everything. I just can't count on my habits changing to avoid this, so I've been using Emacsen (sigh) - they force me to think differently. Let us know ... Rob T -- Rob Thurlow - Expatriate Canadian thurlow@convex.com "From the heart of 'The Friendship State'"
pa1038@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Jon McCarty) (10/11/89)
In article <1382@ultb.UUCP> clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) writes: >In article <1139@mrsvr.UUCP> krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) writes: >>I would love to use vi at home. Is their a public domain version for the ST >>floating around anywhere? >> >There is an ST VI editor called STEVIE. It's latest version (I think) >is 3.44. I have TRIED to use it, but it constantly crashes on me. The >cursor control is the culprit. I run a BBS, and I have tried to use >this to edit text files. I always end up rebooting after it crashes and >using WordPerfect instead. > >If anybody knows of any other VI editors that DON'T crash, please let me >know! > I remember thinking the same thing when I d/loaded STEVIE when it came across a couple of months ago. The cursors were screwed up & it crashed all the time. After some digging around, I found the original source off comp.sources.unix (I think...anyway, it was a version with all the portability macros intact) and re-compiled with Laser C. Wa-La! The version I compiled was much more robust and almost 1/2 the size! (well, ~90K instead of 100+whatever) Haven't gotten around to fixing any more bugs yet (like hitting 'n' w/out previous reg-exp) If anyone wants the volume number of the archive, I could probably dig it up. ----Jon (internet: jmccarty@ucsd.edu) (bitnet? what's that?? @8-)