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Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:33:20 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker
<broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

>Am 18.06.2017 um 18:36 schrieb Paul S. Person:
>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:33:36 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker
>> <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>>> Am 18.06.2017 um 15:25 schrieb Paul McKneely:
>
>>>> The editor comes up with only the window frame. There is no line with
>>>> drop-down options at the top so I can't select the Options the way it
>>>> is.
>
>>> That would indicate more than just the VI mode option is currently
>>> broken. Your active copy must have gotten royally screwed up.
>
>> Re-installation time?
>
>I doubt that would help much in this particular situation. 
>Re-installation will fix problems with files in the %WATCOM% tree, but 
>not affect editor configuration files kept in the user's own directory.
>So the first order of business here must be to find and move away the 
>files in %APPDATA%\Open Watcom, then see if that helps.

Perhaps I have misunderstood the facts.

I thought it was estabished the the OP had /deleted/ the master copy,
and so deleting the local copy and restarting viw would not work.

Reinstalling should restore the master copy, allowing viw to recreate
a local copy from it.

>The only other thing that comes to mind is that the OP might have lost 
>his WATCOM environment variable altogether, so VIW.exe cannot find 
>_anything_ any more; or he could have define EDPATH to some nonsensical 
>value.

Yes, those certainly are possible.
-- 
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her own terms through 
the experience of our senses."

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VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul McKneely <pkmckneely@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-15 17:06 -0500
  Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-06-17 08:27 +0200
    Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul McKneely <pkmckneely@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-06-18 08:25 -0500
      Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-06-18 18:33 +0200
        Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2017-06-18 09:36 -0700
          Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> - 2017-06-19 22:33 +0200
            Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up Paul S. Person <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> - 2017-06-20 08:24 -0700

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