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From: georgew@tekig4.TEK.COM (George Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Don't use autorepeat in STEVIE
Message-ID: <2233@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 87 05:58:37 GMT
Reply-To: georgew@tekig4.TEK.COM (George Walker)
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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Keywords: vi

I just tried out the posting of STEVIE, and naturally, the first thing I
wanted to try is to see how slow insert mode is, since the author mentions
the slowness in the document.  So I held down on a key as if I was entering
a line of *'s for a block comment.  Stevie got about halfway across the
line and bombed.  I had to reboot.  I tried this three times.  Twice it
killed the O/S, and once it subtly corrupted the system so that when I
tried to copy a file after exiting, the system told me there was "not enough
memory to run your application".

Anyway, enough said.  Don't use autorepeat in STEVIE.  The other things I
tried seemed to work OK.

By the way, there are two other pseudo-vi's around, VIX and LEVEE.  Each has
its own limitations.  Between the three programs, you can do anything you
can in vi :-)

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