Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up

From	Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Newsgroups	openwatcom.users.c_cpp
Subject	Re: VIW (Windows Editor) Screwed Up
Date	2017-06-19 22:33 +0200
Organization	OpenWatcom
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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.

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.

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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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