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From: pa1038@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Jon McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: VI
Message-ID: <1297@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 89 18:06:47 GMT
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Reply-To: pa1038@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Jon McCarty)
Organization: Univ. of California, San Diego
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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-)