From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 11 22:54:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA06419 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup4.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA06410 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.7/8.8.6) id AAA02439; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:54:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Zach Heilig Message-ID: <19970912005412.37502@gaffaneys.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:54:12 -0500 To: The Classiest Man Alive Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release References: <8943.874025373@time.cdrom.com> <3.0.3.32.19970911213146.009c5680@cybercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970911213146.009c5680@cybercom.net>; from The Classiest Man Alive on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 09:31:46PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 09:31:46PM -0400, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > Perhaps more to the point, no one has actually commented on the new version > of Zile. I know how resistant programmers can be to change something as > sacred as an editor, but I don't think a quick evaluation/test of the new > editor would kill anybody. Ok, I'll bite. Here is what I came up with after a few minutes of checking it out: (mostly surprises, unfortunately; but this is what you wanted, right?)... If you set the Alt- key to set bit 7, zile ignores that, and outputs \37777777770 for Alt-X (for example). This is the most annoying feature at the moment. You should check for the 'km' feature in the termcap (like emacs), and allow an override; see the 'set-input-mode' function for emacs. The mini-help buffer lists C-x C-q as the quit zile command. All that really succeeds in doing is write-protecting the current buffer. :-) There are a few missing key-strokes (M-w, M-~, M-u are the ones I noticed), and SPACE should be mostly (but not quite) equivalent to TAB on the M-x line. -- Zach Heilig