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From: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Stevie editor
Message-ID: <7402@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 88 02:04:14 GMT
References: <5040.AA5040@heimat>
Reply-To: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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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
> "stdin is not interactive ?!?!?!?".

I've noticed that as well, and I'll look at it right after the Christmass
holiday. If someone else fixes this first, great :-)

>  For those who may be wondering why I run my editor, its a 2 part reason and
> heres both... In place of poping a newcli open when editing and compiling, I
> have a habit of running my editor. The second reson is that Amiga UUCP/UseNet
> runs (Execute) the editor used to enter mail or news articles.

That's where I noticed it as well.

On a unrelated topic, has anyone written a News reader (like rn
perhaps) yet for Amiga UUCP/Usenet ? Someone I know has written something
similar for an Xenix box and I'm thinking of moving it over, but I'd like
to avoid doing something someone else has already done.

	fred

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