Stevie (text editor)

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Stevie
Original author Tim Thompson
Initial releaseJune 28, 1987;38 years ago (1987-06-28)
Final release
3.7a [1]
Written in C
Operating system Atari ST, Unix-like, OS/2, Amiga
License Public domain
Website nosuch.com/tjt/stevie/

Stevie (STeditor for vienthusiasts) [2] is a discontinued clone of the vi text editor. Stevie was written by Tim Thompson for the Atari ST. Thompson posted his original C source code as free software to the comp.sys.atari.st Usenet newsgroup on 28 June 1987. [3] [4] [5]

It was further developed (ported to Unix and OS/2, released as version 3.10 on Usenet) by Tony Andrews [5] [6] and G.R. (Fred) Walter. [7] [8] Tony Andrews added features and ported it to Unix, OS/2 and Amiga, posting his version to the comp.sources.unix newsgroup as free software on 6 June 1988. [9] [10] [11] [12]

Notably, Stevie is the basis for Vim; a popular editor since its inception. [13] [14] In 1992, Bram Moolenaar released Vim (version 1.14 completed in 1991), which he based on the source code of the Amiga port of Stevie. [15]

In its codebase documentation such as its README, the name is all caps, "STEVIE", but source and executable files are named using lower case, "stevie". Modern references tend to capitalize as "Stevie".

References

  1. ↑ "Aminet - text/Edit/Stevie.lha".
  2. ↑ Thompson, Tim. "nosuch.com/tjt/stevie" . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Tim Thompson (June 28, 1987). "A mini-vi for the ST (part 1 of 2)". Newsgroup:  comp.sys.atari.st. 130@glimmer.UUCP. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ Tim Thompson (June 28, 1987). "A mini-vi for the ST (part 2 of 2)". Newsgroup:  comp.sys.atari.st. 130@glimmer.UUCP. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Thompson, Tim (2000-03-26). "Stevie". Archived from the original on 4 January 2016. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  6. ↑ Tony Andrews (1988-06-06). "v15i037: Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga". Newsgroup:  comp.sources.unix. Usenet:   893@fig.bbn.com. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  7. ↑ Vim (20 January 2015). "intro.txt". Vim Help. Vim. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "vim(1)". die.net. Vim. 11 April 2006. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016. Vim is based on Stevie, worked on by: Tim Thompson, Tony Andrews and G.R. (Fred) Walter. Although hardly any of the original code remains.
  9. ↑ Tony Andrews (June 6, 1988). "Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga, Part01/04". Newsgroup:  comp.sources.unix. 893@fig.bbn.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  10. ↑ Tony Andrews (June 6, 1988). "Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga, Part02/04". Newsgroup:  comp.sources.unix. 894@fig.bbn.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ Tony Andrews (June 6, 1988). "Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga, Part03/04". Newsgroup:  comp.sources.unix. 895@fig.bbn.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ Tony Andrews (June 6, 1988). "Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga, Part04/04". Newsgroup:  comp.sources.unix. 896@fig.bbn.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  13. ↑ Paul, Ryan (November 2, 2011), Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary, Ars Technica, retrieved February 7, 2015, The first two prominent vi clones were Stevie and Elvis. Stevie, the ST Editor for vi Enthusiasts, was originally developed for the Atari ST in 1987 and ported to UNIX the next year. It was somewhat primitive but attracted a modest following. ... The earliest version of Vim was developed on the Amiga by Bram Moolenaar in 1988. ... He based his new editor on Stevie, which he has said was the best Amiga-compatible vi clone at the time.
  14. ↑ Schulz, Kim (April 29, 2010), Hacking Vim 7.2: Read-to-use Hacks with Solutions for Common Situations, Packt Publishing Ltd, ISBN   978-1849510509 , retrieved February 7, 2015
  15. ↑
    • The original interview in Czech:Moolenaar, Bram (April 18, 2005). "Rozhovor: Bram Moolenaar" [Interview: Bram Moolenaar]. LinuxEXPRES (Interview) (in Czech). Interviewed by Zapletal, Lukáš. question 2. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
    • English translation:Bram Moolenaar (n.d.). "Interview with Bram Moolenaar, as published in the Czech magazine LinuxEXPRES, English version". Bram Moolenaar's website. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Is VIM derivate of other VI clone or you started from scratch? I started with Stevie. This was a Vi clone for the Atari ST computer, ported to the Amiga. It had quite a lot of problems and could not do everything that Vi could, but since the source code was available I could fix that myself.
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