From: jeffdb@netzone.com ("Mikey") Subject: Re: elvis & vim, was Re: Does anyone have a man command?? 31 Mar 1997 16:18:43 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703311832.LAA27580.cygnus.gnu-win32@nz1.netzone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: Original-Cc: "cygnus" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com http://wwwdim.uqac.uquebec.ca/ftp/pub Less_needed_for_compile.dif Ncurses_terminfo.dif Winsup_add_termcaps.dif Try the above patches to winsup/Ncurses elvis works pretty good with these. ---------- > From: Kevin Dahlhausen > To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Subject: elvis & vim, was Re: Does anyone have a man command?? > Date: Monday, March 31, 1997 1:56 AM > > > > The 'vi' like editor 'elvis' can read man, and i found 'elvis-2.0' for > > win32. Unfortunately > > it isn't buil on cygnus-win32 distrib, so it can't handle unixlike > > pathnames !!! > > I tryed to port it with the tiny termcap embeded, and with gnu libtermcap. > > It compile quite > > easily in both case, and it runs, but input seems to be 'frozen' (in fact > > keystrokes seems > > to be bufferised). Anybody has an idea ?? > > I tried to build a native GNU-WIN32 version of the VI clone VIM. > It compiled but exhibited the same behavior -that is the program > started, displayed 'Empty Buffer' and completely locked up. I > haven't gotten any further on this yet. Since both ports show the > same problem, maybe this points to a problem in the termcap > code? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Dahlhausen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Morse Controls ap096@po.cwru.edu > "Do or do not. There is no 'Try.' " Yoda > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".