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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:04:27 +0200
From:      Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        jhs@freebsd.org
Subject:   WYSIWYG kit for src/usr.bin/vi, ports/net/chimera, print/ghostview
Message-ID:  <199507142204.AAA15817@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>

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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
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