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From: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: stevie editor
Message-ID: <4523@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 12:41:14 GMT
References: <2PSFZ5W@drivax.UUCP> <294@isgtec.UUCP> <0MWF6WC@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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I just last weekend posted an updated Stevie 3.69a to comp.sources.misc.
Should appear soon (it's a moderated group, and well worth the wait for
moderation).

In article <0MWF6WC@drivax.UUCP> braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral) writes:
>
>1.	You have to be in the directory of the file you want to edit (eg,
>	if you are in c:\subdir, and you type 'vi \autoexec.bat', you get
>	some sort of error (I don't recall what it is  right now).
  Stevie doesn't have this problem.  The new version, in addition,
  recognizes environment variables (e.g. $HOME) in file names.

>2.	It doesn't speak through the nnansi driver I'm using.  
  Stevie uses NANSI.SYS.  In 3.69a, (1) it sets raw mode for BLAZING
  speed under NANSI.SYS, or (2) you can compile it to use the BIOS
  directly.

>3.	It's in black and white.  While this isn't a real show stopper,
>	it's rather hard on the eyes that have been staring at a color
>	screen for a while.
  In 3.69a, color is a "set" variable.  My favorite is 30 (bright yellow
  on blue.

I have no idea whether MKS vi has the problems Kral mentions, or if
he just hasn't found the configuration it calls for.  But I can speak
for Stevie's capabilities.

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