Elvis 2.1 for
OS/2
Updated


Elvis Text Editor 2.1j Beta for OS/2 just updated and the file (elv221j1.zip, 1,29Mb) was uploaded on Hobbes. Elvis is a vi/ex clone with many additional features. It provides features such as syntax highlighting, display modes for MAN and HTML pages, support for HTTP and FTP. The package contains versions for text mode and XFree86/2.


The installation

To install Elvis three steps are necessary:

1. Install all that is in the lib/ subdirectory somewhere on your system.
2. Set the environment variable ELVISPATH to that directory.
3. Put all executable files somewhere they get found, preferrably some
directory mentioned in your PATH environment variable.

To see if all worked well I suggest starting Elvis from the command line
and then entering the command ":help". If now the window gets split to
show the online documentation in the upper half everything is OK.


The files

The Elvis OS/2 port supports various different environments since not all
users may have TCP/IP or XFree86/2 installed. So there are four different
versions of the Elvis executable:

elvis.exe is the regular executable with TCP/IP (e.g. ftp and http)
support. TCP/IP for OS/2 is needed to run this file.
elvis-no-tcp.exe is the elvis executable for systems with no TCP/IP
support, e.g. older versions than Warp 3.0 Connect.
elvisemx.exe is Elvis compiled for EMX. It requires the EMX runtime
and provides Termcap support in addition to the regular
OS/2 VIO interface used by the regular version.
elvisx11.exe is like elvisemx.exe but with additional X11 support
allowing the X11 interface to be used under XFree86/2.
The X11 version also runs with PMX if you install the
x11.dll from the XFree86 package.

The misc programs are all regular OS/2 programs provided only in one
version:

vi.exe, ex.exe, ctags.exe, ref.exe, fmt.exe

CONTACT AUTHOR

This port has been done by Lee Johnson and Martin "Herbert" Dietze.
Since Lee has stopped working on the project, please, send all comments
and / or bug reports specific to the OS/2 version to Martin "Herbert" Dietze:

herbert@paulina.shnet.org
or
herbert@fh-wedel.de
@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
OS/2
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