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- TITLE
-
- Elvis - UNIX editor vi/ex clone now available for AmigaDOS.
-
- VERSION
-
- This version is 1.5, a replacement to 1.4 which did not
- support AmigaDOS.
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Elvis was written by Steve Kirkendall.
- Elvis was ported to AmigaDOS by Mike Rieser.
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- From the introduction to Elvis by Steve Kirkendall:
-
- Elvis is a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX
- editor. Elvis supports nearly all of the vi/ex
- commands, in both visual mode and colon mode.
-
- Like vi/ex, Elvis stores most of the text in a
- temporary file, instead of RAM. This allows it to
- edit files that are too large to fit in a single
- process' data space. Also, the edit buffer can
- survive a power failure or crash.
-
- Elvis runs under BSD UNIX, AT&T SysV UNIX, Minix,
- MS-DOS, Atari TOS, Coherent, OS9/68000, VMS and
- AmigaDos. The next version is also expected to add
- MS-Windows, OS/2 and MacOS. Contact me before you
- start porting it to some other OS, because somebody
- else may have already done it for you.
-
- Elvis is freely redistributable, in either source
- form or executable form. There are no restrictions on
- how you may use it.
-
- FEATURES
-
- Under both 1.3 and 2.0 versions of AmigaDOS the following
- features are supported:
-
- Elvis is clean of Enforcer hits.
-
- Elvis supports Global environment variables.
-
- Elvis allows you edit files nearly 2 MB in size, using only
- about 115 KB of memory.
-
- Elvis works as a line editor and can read script files when
- named ex.
-
- Elvis supports most vi .exrc definitions, put them in
- elvis.rc in either s: or your $HOME directory
-
- Elvis READONLY works for -r--d files, and when Elvis is
- named view.
-
- Elvis uses an internal TERMCAP entry by default.
-
- Elvis supports user defined $TERM and $TERMCAP environment
- variables.
-
- Elvis supports window resizing.
-
- Elvis works over an AUX: port, and has an internal vt100-80
- TERMCAP for this purpose.
-
- Elvis supports Function keys and Arrow keys.
-
- Elvis supports shifted Arrow Keys, and shifted Function
- keys.
-
- Elvis can be told where to put its temp files via $TMP or
- $TEMP environment variables.
-
- Elvis makes writes of no larger than 256 bytes to the
- console.device to prevent problems accompanying large
- writes.
-
- Elvis also turns off the cursor to speed output.
-
- Under AmigaDOS 2.04 the following features are supported:
-
- Elvis can use any user defined shell. (csh, ksh, conman, etc)
-
- Elvis can be run, and opens its own window.
- (eg. Run Elvis S:Startup-Sequence)
-
- Elvis supports filters via PIPE:. Elvis multitasks and
- runs programs Asynch.
-
- Elvis supports Local environment variables.
-
- Elvis supports tag lookup using an external tag program
- called ref.
-
- Elvis command line supports AmigaDOS regular expression and
- `*' wildcards via calls to MatchFirst, MatchNext, MatchEnd.
-
- Elvis preserves file protection bits (eg: s-rw--).
-
- Elvis will support 101 key keyboards.
-
- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
-
- Elvis requires more than the standard 4000 byte stack.
- A stack of 10,000 bytes should be adequate.
-
- Elvis requires 115 KB of memory to run. If its
- told to keep its temp files in RAM, it will of course
- require more.
-
- HOST NAME
-
- Elvis is currently available for anonymous FTP from
- ab20.larc.nasa.gov (128.155.23.64).
- Please copy it else where, since ab20 is going away.
-
- DIRECTORY
-
- Elvis was placed in the /incoming/amiga directory.
- It will most likely find its way to:
- /amiga/utilities/editors.
-
- FILE NAMES
-
- AmiElvis-1.5.lha contains both source and binaries.
- The archive creates the following directory structure:
- Elvis-1.5/
- Elvis-1.5/elvisman.txt - ascii format version of docs
- Elvis-1.5/src/ - complete source to Elvis 1.5
- Elvis-1.5/doc/ - troff source requiring ms and an
- Elvis-1.5/bin/ - executables made with Aztec C 5.2b
-
- DISTRIBUTABILITY
-
- Elvis is freely redistributable, in either source form or
- executable form. There are no restrictions on how you may
- use it.
-
- OTHER
-
- The programs are not pure, but can be Rez'ed.
-
- The Elvis binary was configured to use only about 20 KB of
- memory for editing files, the rest is written to disk. If you
- want to increase this, you may have to use large data model.
-