dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe) (01/18/91)
Just out of curiosity, with all this talk going on amount MEmacs, Gnu Emacs, ed, and CED, I'm interested in finding out how many people out there are using STEVIE (vi clone) on the Amiga. To me, this is the best thing since sliced bread as it allows me to program on both my A3000 and the SUN here with a minimum of the EW's (editor withdrawals) Also, since it's available for the I*M, M*c and A*ari it allows a good common editor. I like this. -- Colin DeWolfe dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca
drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) (01/19/91)
In article <1991Jan18.053055.17420@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe) writes: >Just out of curiosity, with all this talk going on amount MEmacs, Gnu Emacs, >ed, and CED, I'm interested in finding out how many people out there are using >STEVIE (vi clone) on the Amiga. > >To me, this is the best thing since sliced bread as it allows me to program >on both my A3000 and the SUN here with a minimum of the EW's (editor >withdrawals) > >Also, since it's available for the I*M, M*c and A*ari it allows a good >common editor. I like this. i've got stevie 3.10a source, and have run it on the amiga, MS-DOS, VMS, and iRMX. on the last two, it frequently dies with various protection errors. on ms-dos, it locks up frequently. on the amiga it causes enforcer hits but doesn't lock up as much as the others. haven't tried to fix it. is there a newer, more improved stevie out there? would be nice to be able to do 1,$s/xyz/pdq/g ! >Colin DeWolfe --Scotty -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott Drysdale Software Engineer Commodore Amiga Inc. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!drysdale PHONE - yes. "Have you hugged your hog today?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) (01/19/91)
In article <1991Jan18.053055.17420@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe) writes: >Just out of curiosity, with all this talk going on amount MEmacs, Gnu Emacs, >ed, and CED, I'm interested in finding out how many people out there are using >STEVIE (vi clone) on the Amiga. I hate to admit it, but.... When I program, I use the "z" editor. This is a clone of vi that comes with Manx's Aztec C. Normal emacs doesn't quite do it for me. I'm so good at vi, it is the fastest for me. It took me about a year to learn it really well (on Unix). I've discovered that for some things, it is very quick, mostly because you don't have to fumble for the control or alt or amiga keys. Having two modes is very counterintuitive, and I remember when I was learning that I had a hard time with vi. Now, though, I'm used to it. If someone managed a complete, solid port of Gnu Emacs, I would probably use that, if only for the indentation features. It's nice having all the different modes that you can load in. Since I haven't found this in the Amiga's MicroEmacs, I haven't used it much since I got z. Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240 Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.
harris@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) (01/23/91)
>Just out of curiosity, with all this talk going on amount MEmacs, Gnu Emacs, >ed, and CED, I'm interested in finding out how many people out there are using >STEVIE (vi clone) on the Amiga. >To me, this is the best thing since sliced bread as it allows me to program >on both my A3000 and the SUN here with a minimum of the EW's (editor >withdrawals) I use stevie at the moment on the amiga, because I use all types of unix machines at university and hate changing editors (it slows me down). BUT it is annoying enough (missing enough of the good stuff) that I will drop it as soon as the ELVIS port for the amiga is out. I use elvis on the atari ST and under MINIX on the amiga, and have found that it has nearly all of the features that I require in a vi clone. Stevie is just not up to scratch, but it will do until elvis is finished (Z [from MANX] just does not compete) rik. -- Rik Harris - rik@sola.fcit.monash.edu.au or harris@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au who died of administration on the 20th of December 1990 Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Australia