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From: ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind )
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: elvis problems and a warning
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Date: 15 Nov 90 09:30:27 GMT
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In article <814@iss-rb.SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
>
>I tried out the vi clone 'elvis' last night and want to warn people
>about some potential problems they might encounter.
>
>The problems:
>
>   1) 	First and foremost, when executed with a filename on the command
>	line my handy-dandy Norton Disk Monitor pops up and says:
>
>	"WARNING: Disk write attempted to system area. Continue, Disallow, ...?"
>
elvis, when called with a filename, creates a copy of the file in the
in the defined 'temp' directory against which all editing is performed.
To do this it has to write to the disk to create the working copy. It does
seem odd that Norton is claiming that the write is to the *system* area
though.
>
>
>   2)	There's no documentation
>
Documentation was posted to c.b.i.p.d.  It is very complete.
>
>   3)	Heaven-knows-what-other-program-in-my-arsenal wanted the
>   	following in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
>
>   	   set TERM=ansi-color
>
Maybe larn?

>   	'elvis' absolutely will not run with that in your environment. As
>   	far as I can tell, the only thing it will allow TEMP to be set to
>   	is '.'.
>
elvis defaults to c:\tmp.  If you don't want this set EXINIT to:

set EXINIT=so [d:\][dir\]elvis.rc

and put a file in the [d:\][dir\] called elvis.rc containing something
like:

set directory=c:\mytmpdir
set showmode
[any other default sets you would like]

Another oddity is that although the documentation says that the program
wildcard.exe is no longer required, if you *don't* have it in your path
then, when you run elvis with a supplied filename, you get a dos 'bad
command or filename' warning.  Elvis will however still load.

Hope this helps.


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Neale D. Hind - (N.D.Hind@stl.stc.co.uk)