NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/editors/2083

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From: [e-mail] (kevin knappmiller)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Crisp on DECstation
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Date: 27 Aug 92 15:23:44 GMT
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Has anyone out there ported Crisp to a DECstation?  I got everything to
compile,
but the documentation seems to be missing from the archive I got
(from wuarchive.wustl.edu  mirrors2/unix-c/editors) and I can't figure out
how to make the keyboards work properly.

Primarily two environments will be using Crisp.  The first is the
workstation itself
using DEC's screwy keyboard, the second is a PC telnetted in using NCSA Telnet,
so all the <ALT> keys are spoken for.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, even those suggesting that it is a lost
cause and that Crisp is not an appropriate editor for this application.
The point
of the exercise was to get an editor that was much more "PC like" than vi, and
to have a similar editor on both the PC and Unix platforms.  The Brief-like
environment was especially attractive since Borland is now selling Brief.

For that matter we have TERSE and I like it very much considering its
limitations.
Just making Crisp act like TERSE would be a step in the right direction.

Trying to get EMACS compiled for both platforms might be an appropriate
solution, but for some reason I have shied away from this.  The people I am
trying to satisfy don't seem to like EMACS much better than vi.

Thanks,

Kevin Knappmiller
Colorado State University
Solar Lab
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