dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) (01/02/90)
[ I tried to mail this to Tony Andrews, the last known keeper of the "vi" clone "stevie". I received no answer. Perhaps this posting will get a response. ] Tony, (Assuming this even reaches you), Thanks for writing (and posting) Stevie. While vi is not my favorite PC editor, it is my favorite UNIX editor. Stevie is one of the best PC vi clones I've seen, and I do use it occasionally. I particularly appreciate the ctags feature, and the Help facility is an excellent addition. Are you still the caretaker for Stevie? If so, I'd like to send you a few enhancements I made. If not, I'll just post them. (Please note that I have no desire to be "the official keeper" of the program. I'm aware of the difficulty of merging others' additions into existing code. I'm just responding to your offer to integrate changes.) What they are: - Added the searches for sentences and paragraphs, formerly omitted. - Added tag stacking (can retrace path back thru tag searches). - Fixed a few bugs with the way tags & ctags work. (Ctags now recognizes functions a little more generally.) - Provided better "navigation" of the help screens. - Ported to Turbo C (easy, but a couple of #ifdefs). - Added DOS-specific help screen (and changed around some functions keys). - PC "delete" key now deletes current character. By the way, you ought to note in the docs that the MSDOS-provided ANSI.SYS will NOT do the trick; it's buggy (even in the 3.30 version I have). I know you recommend NANSI.SYS (which does work), but it would help to warn folks off ANSI.SYS; they may think the strange stuff is coming from Stevie. (I thought so, until I changed drivers.) Thanks again; it's a great piece of work. Dave Tutelman AT&T Bell Labs Lincroft NJ 07738 (201) 576-2194 (201) 922-9576 (Home)