Hello, I've prepared a new maintainer upload of elvis and it is available at http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/elvis/elvis*4adopt3* (If someone agrees to sponsor this I will of course up the version to 2.2.0-5.) As I explained in my ITA the reasons for adopting this package are: * The package *may* be dead upstream but the editor is pretty complete so perhaps not serious changes other than bug fixes are reqd. * elvis-console is a serious contender for a "good" vi that is slightly superior to "nvi" (it has syntax coloring and split windows) but is not significantly larger (445400 vs. 360760). See the thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00796.html * After this upload there will be no open bugs. * Elvis should continue to rock :) * I use it and have used it since my Minix days. Hey! Since it was in Minix maybe even Linus has used it :) Thanks and regards, Kapil. ======================================== Package: elvis Section: editors Priority: optional Provides: man-browser, www-browser Source: elvis Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor Comes in two versions with/without X11 support. Elvis is a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. It supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and ex mode. Elvis adds support for multiple files, multiple windows, a variety of display modes (including syntax highlighting, man, tex, html and hex), an X11 user interface (optional), on-line help, folding, spell checking, new options, auto commands, regions, enhanced tags, printing, aliases and an improved :map command. Like vi/ex, Elvis stores most of the text in a temporary file, instead of RAM. This allows it to edit files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Also, the edit buffer can survive a power failure or crash. Homepage: http://elvis.vi-editor.org ========================================
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