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The elvis Portfile 50572 2009-05-04 19:19:09Z jeremyhu macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: elvis
Version: 2.2_0
Revision: 3
Homepage: http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/
Description: A vi/ex clone
Category: editors
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Platform: darwin
Master Sites: ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/ ftp://ftp.false.com/pub/elvis/ ftp://the.wiretapped.net/pub/elvis/ http://www.fh-wedel.de/pub/elvis/

Checksums: md5 6831b8df3e4a530395e66c2889783752

universal_variant no
configure.args --without-x

# The x11 variant is seriously borked and needs patching to compile
#variant x11 { depends_lib port:xorg-libs
# configure.args-delete --without-x
# configure.args-append --with-x
#
# configure.args-append --x-includes=${prefix}/include --x-libraries=${prefix}/lib
#
# build.args-append CC="gcc -I${prefix}/include `${prefix}/bin/freetype-config --cflags`"
#}
pre-destroot {
reinplace "s|${prefix}|${destroot}${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|sh instman.sh|MANPATH=${destroot}${prefix}/share/man sh instman.sh|" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|MAN/manl MAN/man1|MAN/man1|" ${worksrcpath}/instman.sh
}
post-configure { reinplace "s|/etc|${prefix}/etc|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
}
Long Description: Elvis is a very powerful vi/ex clone providing a remarkable number of bells and whistles like, Syntax Highlighting, Multiple files in multiple windows, Networking support (http and ftp).

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/elvis
%  sudo port install elvis  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching elvis
--->  Verifying checksum for elvis
--->  Extracting elvis
--->  Configuring elvis
--->  Building elvis with target all

--->  Staging elvis into destroot

--->  Installing elvis

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using elvis with these commands:

%  man elvis
%  apropos elvis
%  which elvis
%  locate elvis

 Where to find more information: