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Article #2125Re: Vi (for ST)
From: Vicarious Oyster
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 13:35
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 13:35
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In article <393@unmvax.UUCP> wampler@unmvax.UUCP (Bruce Wampler) writes:
>
> I wrote an editor in C called TVX which was released to the NET
>last spring, but we get a new set of people as time goes on. It has
>its own native command set, but also emulates VI and EMACS...
Is there anybody out there who uses TVX/VI who isn't having problems
with it? Three ST owners at this computing center have a copy (from the
same "original"), and we all have found it to have a fatal flaw. Two of
us encountered errors where the editor would die (losing all changes) while
scrolling up or down. The third person, hearing about this, started doing
periodic writes while editing. Well, when *his* edit session bombed, it
turns out that the previous 'n' writes had put garbage in his file. So
we all went back to using the primitive yet functional Metacomco editor
(which, by the way, has a limit to the size of file it can edit-- I haven't
run into the problem, but another guy has). At any rate, if anyone has
had a similar problem and fixed it, I'd appreciate hearing about it;
conversely, if people have been using it with no problems, I'd like to hear
about that, too. Looking into the problem myself is in my queue, but
it's a ways down there, and days are too short for me to get to everything
I want to do in a finite amount of time (>- sigh! -<).
--
- Joel Plutchak
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!rutgers!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: Vi (for ST) Message-ID: <316@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 09:35:34 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.316 Posted: Fri Oct 3 09:35:34 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 12:00:08 EDT References: <350@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> <393@unmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster) Distribution: na Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 27