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From: ggdavis@tiger.waterloo.edu (Greg Davis)
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Subject: Re: stevie editor (and MKS Vi)
Keywords: vi,stevie,editor,mks
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Date: 9 Mar 90 07:44:05 GMT
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In article <4523@pegasus.ATT.COM> dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) writes:
>I just last weekend posted an updated Stevie 3.69a to comp.sources.misc.

>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.  
mks vi doesn't have this problem for me.  I can use "vi /file" or
"vi \file".  Maybe you are getting a temporary file error.  Try one of
the following:
	set TMPDIR=c:/tmp
	switch -  (works for DOS 2.x or 3.x)
	set dir=c:\\tmp\\ in ex.rc file (if switch is / or DOS 4.x)
	set SHELL=c:/bin/sh.exe in autoexec.bat
	
>>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.
mks vi writes directly to the screen for speed.  I bet you nnansi.sys
does hardware scrolling and thus shifts the screen address.

>>3.	It's in black and white.  
>  In 3.69a, color is a "set" variable.  
see vipc(5), set attrib=

The above comments are for vi in the MKS Toolkit version 3.1.  I'm a
satisfied user.  I think version 2.3 didn't have problem #1.