Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!aurora!labrea!decwrl!hplabs!cae780!tektronix!tekig!tekig4!georgew 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) Distribution: na Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 19 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 :-) George S. Walker {decvax,hplabs,...}!tektronix!tekig4!georgew FLAMENET Tektronix, Inc. georgew@tekig4.TEK.COM DOMAIN (503) 627-4669 tekig4!georgew.tektronix@Udel-Relay ARPANET