Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stevie editor
Message-ID: <5144.AA5144@heimat>
Date: 21 Dec 88 23:48:16 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <10499@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>, brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant) writes:

>In article <5040.AA5040@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>>[ Line eaters have been vanished for years! ]
>>
>>  Ive been using with the editor 'Stevie' posted to the net a few days back
>> and my first impressions are great. It supports the 'VI' features that I use
>> most, and it seems to be very solid. (Compared to a commercial 'VI' like
>> editor ;-)
>>
>>  There is one thing however that I find to be a minor problem. It will not
>> allow you to "run" it (IE: 1> run stevie). The error message returned is
>>  [stuff deleted]
>
>I've noticed one additional problem; when I start up Stevie, it hangs until
>I resize the window it is running in.  This is probably due to my morerow'ed
>interlace WorkBench screen.  Additionally, I have a file of ~1MB size I
>would like to edit but can't even though I start with nearly 2MB ram free;
>it consumes all the free memory (fast and chip) & then gives up.  Ok, so
>that was two problems.  Otherwise I like this editor very much & hope some
>one will fix these minor annoyances.
>
  I use a morerow'ed workbench (30 xtra in both directions) and have a no
  problem with it hanging the cli. Ive never tried to edit a file ~1/2 of
  my free ram space. But that sounds like it might be your problem.......


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