From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 15 01:20:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA29255 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 01:20:22 -0700 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (root@eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA29244 ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 01:20:18 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.142.36]) by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <55416>; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 10:20:08 +0200 Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA15817; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:04:27 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:04:27 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey Message-Id: <199507142204.AAA15817@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: WYSIWYG kit for src/usr.bin/vi, ports/net/chimera, print/ghostview Cc: jhs@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have written a set of patches that apply to: src/usr.bin/vi, ports/net/chimera, print/ghostview src/share/mk/some_new_file_name.mk They provide enhanced functionality, allowing a vi xterm to auto signal an adjacent chimera or ghostview, each time a :w is done, to cause the chimera or ghostview to redisplay, without need for mousing about & clicking reload repetitively. I wrote them because I was envious of the WYSIWYG capability of the Doze & Windoze applications where WYSIWYG is normal. I freely admit this is Not WYSIWYG, its Semi-WYSIWYG, it only updates on each :w, not on each keystroke. I have just posted the chimera patches to the chimera author, the ghostview & vi patches were posted to ghostview & vi authors a month or two back. It will be a very long time before we see these enhancements work through all 3 authors' release cycles & get integrated back here at FreeBSD, but meanwhile we can score a minor first for FreeBSD, & have them here first, if folk don't object. The patches are small, & non intrusive, they don't wreck anything that I've noticed (I've been using them a couple of months now). I'd like to add them to our sources, but would like to offer a couple of folk chance to preview first, before they're commited. BTW no one need worry about code bloat, it's just a few lines here, a few lines there :-) ( WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get ) Anyone want them ? ( & is anyone allergic to incorporation ? ) Julian --- Julian Stacey jhs@freebsd.org & jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de Web www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ & www.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/people/jhs_dir/ Tel +49 89 268616 Fax +49 89 2608126 Time Zone GMT+1 Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany. Internet Unix C & Sys. Eng. Consultant