Vigor is based on the open-source
nvi program, for which I
apologize to the nvi authors. The Vigor assistant was bolted on using
the Tcl facility that nvi had, and a bit of my own C code to cope with
Tk.
I'm improving(?) Vigor based on suggestions from the user
community. Send ideas, bug reports, and patches to joelh%gnu.org, and watch this page for
updates. New versions have been released at a rate ranging from
several each evening to once a week, depending on user comments and
free time.
Vigor Development Resources
All the normal stuff (mailing lists, CVS repository, bug
tracking, etc.) is available through
SourceForge.net.
Many thanks to the SourceForge.net team for providing these!
Vigor Future
It's been a long time since the last release of Vigor. One would
think that I'd be willing to leave well enough alone. Well, I'm not.
I sometimes have some free time, and even though it's not enough to
implement fixes, I am getting ideas for future improvements. (My
friends help; blame them too.)
As always, bug fixes are my highest priority, but some new features
would be nice too. Some of the things I'd like to see in future
versions are:
Improved graphics. I use XBMs in Vigor because it was the
quickest drawing method to implement, and I wanted to get the
first release out during the Vigor storyline on User Friendly.
Now that I've got some time, I'd like to improve the graphics
handler and the artwork.
More hooks! More confirmations, more annoying helpful hints (like
the ones given when you start insert mode), more random popups, more!
More animations! At present, there are precisely two animations
(count em!) in Vigor. This is not nearly insideous enough.
Naturally, with animations, you lead into...
Sound effects (via Network
Audio System or esound). This naturally suggests...
Speech (via
Festival).
This isn't that hard to do using Festival's server mode. (Thanks
to my coworkers at HP for the idea, the deranged loonies!)
Microsoft Windows support. Judging by the feedback I get, people
who aren't Unix devotees just don't get the point of Vigor, but
strangely enough I've gotten multiple requests to port Vigor to
Windows. Well, I suppose I may as well... Kinda one of those
"full circle" things.
This by no means is an exhaustive list. If people send me patches,
then I'll add just about anything. These are just some of the things
that I might do over the next few weeks, months, whatever.
Revisions
Vigor was rushed out in order to be released during User Friendly's
Vigor storyline. It originally had several bugs, and several
unimplemented features. I've been fixing bugs and adding features
since the day Vigor was relelased. There are presently no outstanding
Vigor bugs that I'm aware of; let me know if you find something!
There is one remaining problem that we've only seen on two systems:
Vigor, when it starts, exits with the message unknown
floating-point error, errno = 84. Eivind Tagneth, who first
reported this, traced it down to a bug in Tcl, and submitted a patch
to the Tcl maintainers.
Even if you're not seeing bugs, it's good to hear how much
success/failure people are having on different platforms.
Let me know how things work for
you!
- Version 0.016 (May 2 19:36)
- Create Whizzers, specialized dialogs to help you perform
specialized tasks. Presently, there are Whizzers for a few
programming languages, and some common editing tasks. More
should follow.
- Version 0.015 (Mar 25 15:17)
- Disable by default built-in curses, db, and re libraries. Most
OS's these days have proper libraries for these, and I was seeing
conflicts (particularly on SuSE under Vigor 0.014). This may
break things on some other OS's, probably older ones. If so,
try using --enable-curses --enable-db --enable-re on the command
line.
- Version 0.014 (Feb 8 14:50)
- Remove the hack to the EULA that produced the
Jumping Vigor Bug.
- Version 0.013 (Feb 5 11:53)
- Fix to configure.in: it looked for Tcl on Debian systems when it
was supposed to look for Tk.
- Version 0.012 (Feb 4 00:28)
- Updated EULA, made dialog box move along with assistant
- Version 0.011 (Feb 2 00:10)
- Look for libtcl8.2 etc (as opposed to libtcl82 etc); handle
select() calls prior to assistant initialization
- Version 0.010 (Jan 19 23:16)
- Modified EULA, changed fractional cm screen specs to pixel
counts, use libtcl82 if found, look for uint8_t etc
- Version 0.009 (Jan 18 15:11)
- Improved Tcl/Tk detection, added EULA, detect -ldl
- Version 0.008 (Jan 17 21:20)
- Added new comments, touched up comment probabilities, made sure that
comments don't overlap with animations, modified configure.in to look
for libtcl80.a
- Version 0.007 (Jan 17 12:25)
- Fixed make install to install vigor instead of vi
- Version 0.006 (Jan 16 12:42)
- Further touch-up of "confirm" dialog's probabilities; rename
executable to vigor
- Version 0.005 (Jan 16 01:01)
- Fixed make install; write Tk error messages to stderr before vi
initializes the screen
- Version 0.004 (Jan 16 00:21)
- Updated configure to match configure.in (oops!)
- Version 0.003 (Jan 15 23:45)
- Added random quotes and animations; compiled vigor.tcl into
executable
- Version 0.002 (Jan 15 20:16)
- Updated graphics; touched-up "confirm" dialog
- Version 0.001 (Jan 14 01:05)
- Initial release
