From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miguel Bolanos Subject: Re: *vi*->e3 Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:41:39 -0600 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1086403299.3221.8.camel@talena.hsol.net> References: <200406041745.i54HjXOu008988@ak.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-376qEf6gvpK1bKWgBodk" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200406041745.i54HjXOu008988@ak.sax.de> List-Id: To: Albrecht Kleine Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org --=-376qEf6gvpK1bKWgBodk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings. On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 11:45, Albrecht Kleine wrote: > Hi, >=20 > > 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. >=20 > > 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 wit= h > > this. >=20 > 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 :) >=20 > The reason is as follows: the elks port does _NOT_ include > vi's and emacs's key bindings, but 'wordstar' in a fullscreen way. >=20 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=20 > into 16 bit for ELKS and DOS. Later I did not continue, > because I never got much feedback. any my only reason to do=20 > this port was only to play with ELKS on an old 8086 PC. >=20 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=20 > to include e3 into elks_cmd, so that would be a reason > to later improve this 16 bit stuff. >=20 Good. We really hope that you can continue ur work on 16bit too, as it will of great benefit for elks. [...] best wishes Mike --=20 --------------------miguel bolanos, systems administrator, linuxlabs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 2701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 -------------------------------------------------------------------- --=-376qEf6gvpK1bKWgBodk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAwTLidQCX3Gg3xVoRAt+VAJ42U/jSoPtP/NQV3vDwBdu4zqwPWwCfcKmK 0baNjcSe9tVO2A9WVwzhJ20= =ijP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-376qEf6gvpK1bKWgBodk--