It's official: Elvis 2.1 is hereby released

[Steve Kirkendall]

Elvis 2.1 is now available for downloads from:

ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/README.html (main site)
ftp://ftp.false.com/pub/elvis/README.html (mirror)

Compared to the traditional vi, elvis adds the following features:

* Runs under Unix, MS-DOS, Windows95/98/NT, and OS/2.
* Multiple edit buffers, so you can edit several files at once.
* Multiple windows, so you can see multiple edit buffers, or
different parts of the same edit buffer.
* Multiple user interfaces, including graphical interfaces under
Windows95/98/NT and X11.
* A variety of display modes, including syntax coloring and HTML.
* Online help, with hypertext links.
* Enhanced tags, to support overloading in C++.
* Network support, so you can load/save files via FTP, or even use
elvis as a light-weight Web browser.
* Aliases, which allow you to define new ex commands.
* Built-in calculator

Compared to elvis 2.0, elvis 2.1 should be more stable (have fewer bugs).
It also adds the following features:

* New ex commands, mostly intended to make elvis/ex scripts more
powerful and easier to write.
* New ports: a graphical Win32 port, and a OS/2 port (text mode,
or X-windows via XFree86/2).
* Improved X11 interface
* Name completion, via the <Tab> key
* Enhancements to tilde in a file name
* Network protocols, so you can read/write via Web URLs.
* "tex" display mode
* Enhanced tags
* The 'c' flag to the :s command
* Lots of little things.
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Steve Kirkendall kirk...@cs.pdx.edu Hanger-On at Portland State U.