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SubGenius Digest #426
Elvis Lives! (according to comp.editors)
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Message-ID: <9004241650.AA27255@plan9.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 09:50:14 PDT
From: "Michael J. Tuciarone" <tooch@sun.com>
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Warning: Muzak(R) can disturb your wa
Soft Music Can Make You Uptight
(AP) -- "Easy listening" music can do more to put people on edge than
silence can, researchers say.
"Some people don't relax to certain types of music because they don't
like it," said Valerie Stratton, an Penn State University assistant
professor of psychology.
Stratton and Annette Zalanowski, an assistant professor of music,
exposed dozens of people to a variety of music and polled them on how
relaxed they felt. Music fans eager to relax should simply reach for
the type of music they already enjoy.
[I could have told them that. When I'm all keyed up and tense, there's
nothing like a little Husker Du, Violent Femmes, or Dot 3 to take the
edge off.]
-the Rightmost Right Most Rev.
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Message-ID: <9004241715.AA03906@halibut.rice.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 12:15:32 CDT
From: Kenneth Mark Maxham <max@marsh.rice.edu>
To: SubGenius%MC.LCS.MIT.EDU@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: SubGenius Digest #426
Hi, I'm taking off for the summer, so please take my name off the mailing
list. I shall be worshipping in Rev. Stang's HOUSE OF SLACK during the
upcoming months.
--max
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Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.640990993.trudel@revenge.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 1990 17:03:13 EDT
From: Jonathan Trudel <trudel@revenge.rutgers.edu>
To: SubGenius@MC.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Elvis Lives! (according to comp.editors)
The latest in the Deux est Machina line...
>From: kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall)
>Newsgroups: comp.editors
>Subject: A new clone of vi is coming soon: ELVIS
>Keywords: vi ex elvis
>Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR
>Lines: 64
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>I've been working on a new clone of vi. Somebody suggested that the folks on
>this newsgroup might be interested, so...
>
>The clone is called "elvis", some of its major features are:
>
> * The text is stored in a temporary file, just like the real vi,
> and UNLIKE stevie. Because of this, you can edit files that are
> larger than a single process' data space. Also, you can recover
> your file after a crash or power failure.
>
> * A fairly complete "ex" mode is supported. Elvis can execute most
> ex scripts. The :@, :abbr, and :preserve commands are missing,
> and :recover has been replaced by a separate program. Every other
> command is present, though, including :map and :change.
>
> * All visual-mode commands work, except @ and *appending* to named
> buffers. List support is missing. There are a few extensions:
> shift-K looks up the word that the cursor is on & displays some
> information about it (currently it tries to find a function header,
> given the function name) and ## increments a number.
>
> * Arrow keys work in input mode. In fact, if you invoke the editor
> via the name "input", then it will start editing in input mode.
> You can make your changes, and then exit by hitting control-Z twice,
> and NEVER go into visual command mode. In other words, elvis can
> act pretty much like a NORMAL editor -- something that the real vi
> certainly can't do.
>
> * Long lines are displayed differently. Where vi and stevie wrap the
> line onto several rows of the screen, elvis displays it on one row
> and allows you to scroll sideways.
>
> * In input mode, you can backspace past the beginning of a line.
>
> * Elvis can (optionally) interpret the \fB, \fI, and \fU sequences
> to display bold/italic/underlined characters on the screen.
>
> * Elvis refreshes the screen very quickly.
>
> * Elvis allows wildcards in filenames. For example, you can say
> ":n *.c" to edit all of the C source files in the directory.
> The real vi does this, too, but stevie doesn't.
>
> * For regular expressions, elvis uses a syntax that is very similar to
> the real vi's. It is more compatible than stevie.
>
> * It has a 40-page manual.
>
>The first version of elvis was posted to comp.os.minix in late January.
>A set of patches/extensions were posted there about three weeks later,
>in mid-February. Since then, elvis has been improved/debugged. More
>importantly, it has been ported to MS-DOS. When it works under Atari TOS,
>I will post it to comp.sources.SOMETHING. Hopefully, this will be in a
>week or so.
>
>My motivations for writing elvis were:
> 1) I wanted a clone of vi that would run under Minix.
> 2) I wanted the source to a version of vi, so that I could change
> a few things.
> 3) I wanted an editor that didn't store the edited file in *volatile*
> memory.
Some comments:
> * Elvis refreshes the screen very quickly.
Elvis: The editor that refreshes!
> * Elvis allows wildcards in filenames
Isn't this one of his commandments?
>* For regular expressions, elvis uses a syntax that is very similar to
> the real vi's. It is more compatible than stevie.
Isn't Stevie one of the 23 names of the Anti-bob? And just how much is
Elvis' Syntax?
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