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From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: vi look-alike editor
Keywords: vi ms-dos
Message-ID: <16880@ethz-inf.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 09:57:50 GMT
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Organization: ETH Zurich
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dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) writes:

>>You want jstevie.  As soon as it's stable it will be posted to a sources
>>news group.
>
>I missed the base posting, but if the reproduced part catches the essence
>of it, Stevie will do fine.  It was posted a few weeks ago to
>comp.sources.misc, with a bug-fix (and the missing file ascii.h)
>posted to comp.sources.d.
>
>I am currently typing this in on Stevie from a UNIX machine.  I use
>the same editor on MSDOS, and the posting also includes Make information
>for OS/2, MINIX, and the Atari ST.  Someone is also working on a
>VMS port.

jstevie is much much much better.  It includes ex ":" commands, macros
and a lot of bug fixes.  It can edit kanji and other 8-bit stuff.  I
just added the :so (source) command, the :! (shell escape) and fixed
some macro interpretation.  It is not really stable yet but the authors
were kind enough to send me out a "current" version upon which to hack.

>If there's something in the original posting that renders Stevie
>inadequate for the task, well....  "Never mind"

ex commands, bugs, no 8-bit char sets, ...

I'll send it if you're in europe, and I'll make it available via anon ftp
if I get enough requests...

-Mitch