From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 24 10:45:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20388 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20382 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (local [127.0.0.1]) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA08123; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 03:44:50 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199704241744.DAA08123@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Joel Sutton cc: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLANG enthusiasts? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:43:51 +1000." <199704241043.UAA12611@solsbury-hill.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 03:44:50 +1000 From: David Nugent Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > Can some one that loves SLANGed apps please port this text editor called > > > > JED? > > > > http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/jed.html > > > > How about I learn how to make a port? Jed's my editor of choice as well, > > and I already have it installed, but I never made a port out of it. And > > I've been meaning to upgrade to the latest version of Jed anyway. > > We could always make it a joint effort??? This might be the way to go > since I've already started. It doesn't look like there will need to > be much modification of code - just make file madness (as I call it > :->). > > Reply to me personally if you want to work something out. FWIW, I tried porting it some time ago. The X version worked 100% fine in all respects, but I had some problems with the tty version, even after tweaking. The problems resulted in non-optimal display updating and sometimes miscoloration and invalid character inserts and deletes messing up the display. Now, it worked just fine with a vt100, but not for cons25. I never did track down the problem, but it may have been a special case problem with the cons25 termcap entry, probably buried deep within slang's screen manager and buried down yet another level into libmyterminfo. I never resolved it, so this problem was the only reason I didn't make it a port at the time. It may be that the problem got fixed in a later version of slang - there have been at least 2 slang updates since. David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/