README - e version 1.3
Blurb:
e is a command line preprocessor to get you into vi with ease.
I find it very useful - even given a shell with history. It keeps
a history of the files that have been e'ed most recently in each
directory. Thus it is nice to be able to do
cd somewhere
e
and get straight into the file you were last working on in the
directory "somewhere". It also allows fast cross-directory editing,
does spelling corrections and solves the nasty modeline security
problem by allowing you to ensure that you never inherit someone
else's .exrc file.
Documentation:
Documentation and examples can be found in the man page in e.1.
This is in troff -man format.
Installing e:
Change the UNIX line at the start of the Makefile. This *must* be
one of Bsd, Sun, Sysv, Ultrix or Dynix.
[If you are on a sequent (dynix), change the e dependency
line in the Makefile to "e :& $(HEADERS) $(OBJS)" to get parallel make]
Then make.
If you use a previous version of e, you will want to update your old
.e files as the new version uses a single .e file in your home
directory. The format is slightly different. The shell script in
e_update.sh will make the changes for you.
Portability:
This is known to work on BSD4.[23], Ultrix 2.0, Dynix (BSD4.2 universe),
and SUN 3.0. I put quite alot of time into trying to get it to go on
a SVR2 NCR tower here, but it was so *incredibly* slow that I ran out
of patience - but it is *very* close (it compiles, but the terminal gets
screwed up sometimes). Please let me know if you make it work.
It passes through lint without comment - except for the screwy stuff
in <sys/ioctl.h> on BSD.
Thanks:
To Phil Oldiges, Simon Brown and John Sellens.
Also to Doug Gwyn for his directory routines and answering questions
about them.
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Waterloo Ontario Canada N2L 3G1
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