Re: *vi*->e3

[Miguel Bolanos <mike@linuxlabs.com>]

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Greetings.

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 11:45, Albrecht Kleine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:51, Tommy McCabe wrote:
> > > I propose we replace the umpteen vi versions in
> > > elkscmd with e3, which has already been ported, is
> > > smaller and lighter, and has five different
> > > keybindings (yes, including vi's and emacs's). The
> > > main website: http://www.sax.de/~adlibit/ (Yes, it's
> > > written in English). The attachment is the ELKS
> > > version of e3 plus Makefile. It is written in assembly
> > > and requires nasm to build.
> 
> > I'm not very sure about this... we could include it, but replacing vi..
> > i honestly would like to hear others opinions before moving forward with
> > this.
> 
> My name is Albrecht Kleine, the author of e3.
> I would suggest to ship the ELKS version e3 additionally,
> but not replacing vi.

Oh... hehe nice to Meet you Albrecht :), its nice to see you reading
this list :)

> 
> The reason is as follows: the elks port does _NOT_ include
> vi's and emacs's key bindings, but 'wordstar' in a fullscreen way.
> 

So its decided.. we won't replace vi, but yes we will port e3 :)

> This stuff was forked in an early stage from e3/Linux 
> into 16 bit for ELKS and DOS.  Later I did not continue,
> because I never got much feedback. any my only reason to do 
> this port was only to play with ELKS on an old 8086 PC.
> 

Well elks have been certainly progressing a lot lately after a very long
period of inactivity, so you can be sure that feedback will come,
specially now that we will include e3 :)

> OTOH, it is really nice to read you considering 
> to include e3 into elks_cmd, so that would be a reason
> to later improve this 16 bit stuff.
> 

Good. We really hope that you can continue ur work on 16bit too, as it
will of great benefit for elks.

[...]

best wishes

Mike

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