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- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Editor mined (Unix, VMS, MSDOS) - easy, solid, non-8-bit-obstructing (1/4)
- Message-ID: <id.SWWR.HZI@ferranti.com>
- Summary: Poorly factored, non-portable, violates C language definition...
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <42I54HD@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:44:41 GMT
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- I really hope one of these "simple" editors will help me break the user inter-
- face logjam, but so far they've all been hacks. This one is, alas, no
- exception.
-
- In article <42I54HD@math.fu-berlin.de> wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff) writes:
- > ,In response to recent requests for a free, simple, and solid editor
- > ,(where the problem is: emacs is not simple, most public domain
- > ,contributions are not solid, and vi is not an editor),
- > ,I wish to contribute my adaptation of mined.
-
- I hope that Thomas Wolff is the person responsible for the more bizzarre
- code in this program. I'd hate to think that Andy Tannenbaum put comments
- like "C is such a stupid language" when trying to assign a (char **) to a
- (char **[]). Vi might not be an editor, but at least it runs.
-
- > ,- fully functioning in windows which may be resized at any time and the
- > , editor will react immediately and install a correct screen image; the
- > , cursor stays at the point of text where it was
-
- There are systems that define TIOCGWINSZ that don't provide BSD semantics. You
- need to make this an explicit option in the Makefile. For that matter, where
- is the Makefile?
-
- Clean it up a bit, I'll be happy to help, but right now it's about as solid
- as a snowman in June.
- --
- Peter da Silva `-_-'
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