Re: *vi*->e3

[Albrecht Kleine <kleine@ak.sax.de>]

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.

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

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.

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.

BTW, after suspending developement for nearly 12 months
currently I am working on a new version ready for UTF-8 coding
on 32 bit Linux and *BSD.
UTF-8 is a big thing at least here in Europe ...
....but IMHO not for ELKS.

Cheers,
Albrecht