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From: fredch@guardian.hf.intel.com
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Subject: Elvis quirks -- solutions??
Keywords: elvis vi
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Date: 22 Jan 91 18:56:55 GMT
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I have been thinking of using Steve Kirkendall's Elvis as an alternate to
the older PC/VI.  I've hit upon a couple of quirks that seem to limit
its usefulness under DOS.

1)  The documentation suggests that under DOS, elvis searches for
    .\elvis.rc.  In other words, only in your current directory.  PC/VI,
    on the other hand, will look in your HOME directory for vi.ini.
    I don't care to have elvis.rc's sprinkled all other the place, so I
    tried another tack (see below).  Nevertheless, is there a way to get
    elvis to search under HOME?  (I do not have source, only the binary as
    posted to c.b.i.p)

2)  The documentation says that elvis will check with the EXINIT env var.
    Unfortunately, command.com barfs on either of:
        set EXINIT="ai re=1 sw=4"
        set EXINIT=ai re=1 sw=4
    Any solutions to this?

3)  If I scroll with ^D, from end of text to end of screen line is black
    instead of the normal background color.  :g's do this, too, but not
    ^F's or j's, nor ^U's, ^B's, or k's.  This is not fatal but annoying.

Thanks in advance.   ...FredCh (fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com)
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