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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