Baslinux mailing list

[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> 
> I think it s is stuck in wordstar mode - the default as compiled.
> 
> Only plain e3 from my package works in BL1.  I had to add 'tail' from the 
> appropriate version of SW to make e3pi (pico version) work.
> 
> I compiled the complete version for Bl2 but only included e3 and e3pi in 
> my little package.

I think e3pi, e3vi, etc are just symlinks to e3. so it should take up
almost no space to have them all.

Having said that, making said symlinks in BL1 didn't seem to work.
> 
> I had to replace 'tail' from SW71 with 'tail' from SW32 (txtutils) to get
> it to work with BL1.  
>

Was this to get it to compile or to get it to run?
Seems strange that it needs tail at runtime - I wonder what for ...

> I did not include the other modes in my little package but if you want I
> can send them to you.  I don't know what they will need to work.  Plain e3
> (wordstar) did not need tail or any other additions.
>
Aha - I used a binary version a long time ago and you could switch between all
the different modes (using Ctrl-K M if I remember) - but that must be a
compile time choice.


> To compile your own version you need the source code, nasm.tgz, diffs.tgz 
> (diff.tgz?) and to put a line in Makefile SHELL=bash or else install echo 
> from sh-utils.  This went very quickly even though I had never compiled 
> assembly language or much of anything else before.  Just type 'make' and 
> then 'make test'.  Make install did not work for me.  Feel free to email 
> me for help - I was very proud of myself to get this working. 
>

I might give it a go.

> It is more than 3 editors - Wordstar, pico, vi, emacs, and possibly some 
> others.  I think I found the source code online with more info.  
> 
> You can choose to compile with a different default than wordstar, or use 
> the very small additional files like e3pi for the different modes.  
> 

Thanks

Ian