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  Jail May  5 2011 12:17 PM EST

So, I've been wanting to write a clone of vim for a while now to get experience with both text algorithms and working with the console in a more meaningful way than "cout <<" will allow me to. So, I've been slowly hacking away at a program named jail . It's a joint project between myself and CodeBlock. He's just learning C++, so his commits so far have been pretty scarce. He did add in arrow key support for those of you impure vim'ers ;)

Working on it so far has been a nice experience. Just yesterday, I finally started working with ncurses to be able to display files (read-only). Today I had the opportunity to work on it some more, and it is now evolved into a dumb file-only pager, which works great if you don't have lines longer than the width of the terminal.

Where am I going with this? I don't really know :) That's pretty much it, I suppose. Just wanted to let everyone know why the new update scheme hasn't been applied; I've been working on jail instead of this site.

 

My name is Jeff Chapman; You can reach me at: [email protected]