Re: [vile] update on vi-book draft

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Paul Fox wrote:

> tom -- i'm sorry i haven't had time in the last week to look
> at this.

I know how it goes ($dayjob eats a lot of time).  But $dayjob's working
in short cycles, so I can do this _now_ (my original plan was to work on 
vile, anyway - though not on this ;-).  Any advice is helpful though.

In chapter 12, most of it is either okay, or updated except for 12.6, 
which I expect to spend much of tomorrow rewriting.  Actually, I trimmed 
12.6.1 down since it was simple, but for the rest, I want to trim things 
and introduce comparable coverage for winvile - the trimming is partly to 
stay in roughly the same page count as the original (meeting expectations 
helps avoid having the O'Reilly editor chop it to their tastes).

> the link below points at a lot of pages that say "unchanged".  is
> that your comment, or is it something andy sent you?

That's my comment.

Andy sent me what appears to be the un-updated chapter 12, which was 
focused on vile.  I scanned through the book (found a pdf on the web last 
year, which helps, since I can search _that_), and saw that the vi-clones 
were introduced in chapter 8, and also that the appendix C lists the 
modes/options for each editor.

I made a stub for chapter 8, noting places where the text should be 
updated for vile - not _all_ are unchanged.  Keeping the section numbers 
the same in the stub is so it's easy to relate to the original book. At 
the moment I'm filling out a stub for the appendix C, since the comparable 
coverage for vile should list the options introduced since 1998.  (There 
are also minor errors in the original book's appendix).

They may of course change the organization of those chunks, though from 
the way Andy's initial email read, it didn't sound likely. So I decided 
it's best to just update what's needed, and get it into their draft for 
review (for this Monday, which is what I believe Andy and I agreed to in 
the second/third email).

> paul
>
> thomas wrote:
> >
> > I've gone once-through the chapter 12, have to rework some of the
> > xvile treatment (partly to make room for comparable discussion
> > of winvile), and see that I ought-to-update the list of options
> > in appendix-c.  So it's progressing.  Additional eyes on the
> > text are welcome...
> >
> > http://invisible-island.net/vile/vi-book/
> >
>
> =---------------------
> paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 38.5 degrees)

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