gwr@nz8r.UUCP (Gregory W. Ratcliff) (08/10/89)
I am searching for editor that is a workalike to vi for
the cpm based system I have. I am really tired of having
to switch editors 5 or 6 times a day!
Source would be nice, as I have a compiler.
thanks
gwr
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Gregory W. Ratcliff, {osu-cis}n8emr!uncle!nz8r!gwr
ham radio,aviation,tcp-ipdbraun@cadev4.intel.com (Doug Braun ~) (08/11/89)
I started trying to port STEVIE (from its Minix version) to CP/M. It is just too damm big, however. You would need some fancy disk buffering scheme that would slow it way down. Doug Braun Intel Corp CAD 408 765-4279 / decwrl \ | hplabs | -| oliveb |- !intelca!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun | amd | \ qantel /
wyle@inf.ethz.ch (08/11/89)
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I also started porting STEVIE. I am now working on paring the code down
to an acceptable subset (globbing instead of regex, elimination of
fluffy, unused vi featuers). I am also thinking long and hard about
memory allocation.
The biggest problem with vi is modes. You can't configure vedit (for
example) to look like vi, because vedit wants a META key before each
and every command mode keystroke. Otherwise your're in insert (or
change) mode.
A final alternative (which I encourage some young, rambunctious hacker)
is to take the source of, say vdo, and vee-eye-atize it. Any takers?
-Mitch
-Mitchell F. Wyle
Institut fuer Informationssysteme wyle@inf.ethz.ch
ETH Zentrum / 8092 Zurich, Switzerland +41 1 256 5237walker@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Rick Walker) (08/15/89)
/ hpl-opus:comp.os.cpm / dbraun@cadev4.intel.com (Doug Braun ~) / 4:19 pm Aug 10, 1989 / > I started trying to port STEVIE (from its Minix version) to CP/M. > It is just too damm big, however. You would need some fancy > disk buffering scheme that would slow it way down. > > > Doug Braun Intel Corp CAD ---------- Consider the 'S' editor as presented with source code in Webb Miller's book "A Software Tools Sampler", published by Prentice-Hall. It is a good VI clone and is both well written and easy to understand. It also fits well on a CP/M system. Rick Walker ...!hplabs!walker