From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 11 12:39:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08635 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 12:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (root@sunrise.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08628; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 12:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA27209; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 12:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA03522; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:48:20 +0300 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:48:19 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Chuck Robey cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , bvsmith@lbl.gov, ports%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, gj%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, me%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, asami%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: xfig.3.1.4 extension to support vi -C signals linkage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > I have developed an extension to xfig.3.1.4 (Ref. freebsd/ports/graphics/xfig) > > that allows an adjacent xterm running 'vi' to send a signal on each ':w' > > that xfig interprets as a re-open & redisplay command. > > > > This mechanism is compatible with my previous work on vi ghostview & chimera. > > I like the matchup, I wonder if there's some way to make something like > this work inside the standard ports setup. There's not port of nvi (Keith > Bostic's latest version of vi) although it compiles easily on FreeBSD. Do > you have pointers to your work on ghostview and and chimera? > How about making it a separate, local port that would depend on the presence of xfig and build a new xfig? Just like tclX does... Sander > I sure like the basic idea, a timesaver for sure. > > > [snip - sorry, I really did mean to snip the .sigs]