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For those who hate Edit as much as I do, I offer Vi.  This "application"
allows you to open files with vi(1) from the Browser.  In order for this
to work you must have Scott Hess's Stuart terminal emulator.  Stuart is
a replacement for Shell, and is Shareware, available from finer ftp
archives everywhere.

When you quit (or suspend) vi(1) the Stuart window will be closed.

Some of the compilation process is borrowed from Christopher Lane's old
Unknown application.

The portions of this program (very little, in fact) that I wrote are in
the public domain, and you may do whatever you want with them.

COMPILATION

In order to compile Vi, you might need to edit 3 files:
	Vi.iconheader
	Makefile
	Makefile.preamble

In Vi.iconheader, add any additional file types (i.e. file extensions)
that you want to be able to open with vi(1).

In Makefile, change TIFFFILEDIR to the location where you want to
store your file type icons.  Then, add to ICONSECTIONS any file types
you added to Vi.iconheader.  Note that for any file type you have added
to Vi.iconheader you *must* have an associated tiff file.

In Makefile.preamble, change SOIL to the location where you have
soil installed (soil is a utility program that comes with Stuart).
Change TERMDELAY to the number of miliseconds you want Vi to wait
between requestions from the Workspace Manager before terminating
(see the Notes: section for app:openFile:fileType: in Vi.m).

Run make install.  Logout and log back in, and Viola!

TIFF FILES

To save space in this distribution, I'm not sending out any tiff files.
The ones I use I got from the Unknown applicaiton distribution (or made
them myself).  If you can't find the Unknown app at any of the ftp archives
now, let me know and I'll resubmit this distribution with some tiff files
in it.

This has only been tested under NS2.1, but I see no reason why it
won't work under NS3.x.

FUTURE

1. Once NeXT fixes IB to use a call to open(1) instead of the
   hardcoded call to openfile(1) or directly messaging Edit (I'm not
   sure that's what it's doing but it seems so) opening a header/source
   file in IB will use Vi as well. (I'm told that PB under NS3.x
   will go to the Workspace to open .[hm] files)

2. For some reason, if I include an icon for a filetype which Edit
   knows how to open, the Workspace uses Edit's icon instead of the
   one I supply.  Does anyone know how to change this behavior?

Paul Biron      pbiron@gslis.ucla.edu        (310) 825-5614
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of California, Los Angeles
GSLIS Building
300 Circle Dr. North
Los Angeles, Ca. 90024

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