Date   : Fri, 11 Aug 1989 16:39:36+0200
From   : <wyle@inf.ethz.ch>
Subject: vi source??

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I also started porting STEVIE.  I am now working on paring the code down
to an acceptable subset (globbing instead of regex, elimination of
fluffy, unused vi featuers).  I am also thinking long and hard about
memory allocation.

The biggest problem with vi is modes.  You can't configure vedit (for
example) to look like vi, because vedit wants a META key before each
and every command mode keystroke.  Otherwise your're in insert (or
change) mode.

A final alternative (which I encourage some young, rambunctious hacker)
is to take the source of, say vdo, and vee-eye-atize it.  Any takers?

-Mitch
-Mitchell F. Wyle
Institut fuer Informationssysteme         wyle@inf.ethz.ch 
ETH Zentrum / 8092 Zurich, Switzerland    +41 1 256 5237



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