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Tom:
--- Quote from: jailbird on July 28, 2022, 10:10:16 pm ---I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!
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And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that ;)
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: Tom on July 28, 2022, 11:52:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: jailbird on July 28, 2022, 10:10:16 pm ---I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!
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And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that ;)
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Looks like it still has OS/2 support, Open Watcom and GCC, both EMX and kLIBC, EMX required for X11 support.
Have to test it, https://github.com/mbert/elvis/blob/master/osos2/Makefile.os2
jailbird:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on July 29, 2022, 01:00:00 am ---
--- Quote from: Tom on July 28, 2022, 11:52:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: jailbird on July 28, 2022, 10:10:16 pm ---I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!
--- End quote ---
And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that ;)
--- End quote ---
Looks like it still has OS/2 support, Open Watcom and GCC, both EMX and kLIBC, EMX required for X11 support.
Have to test it, https://github.com/mbert/elvis/blob/master/osos2/Makefile.os2
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Yep! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I had to do a lot of source hacking. I meant "wow, I actually managed to get enough RPMs installed to make it compile!" :).
The only thing elvis doesn't seem to do that vim probably does is automatically detect DOS-style line endings (CR+LF) and switch to the proper mode. It allows you to do it manually or via config file. I'm going to see if I can add auto-detection for existing files, it should be fairly simple.
Andreas Schnellbacher:
But why limit to a VIO editor? Several editors for PM exist.
About VIO: FTE is really fast, even in its PM mode.
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