This is my first attempt to make a port for the howl editor (https://howl.io/).

I think howl is a *really* good alternative editor which compares well with e.g.
Sublime Text for my uses.

Also it doesn't come with a huge baggage like the Electron based editors
Atom and VS Code.

* The upstream code builds cleanly on OpenBSD since 0.4 release
* A stability issue (I found) on OpenBSD was fixed in last point release 0.5.2

I have tried my best to create a suitable port.

The current port is available at:

https://github.com/peterljung/howleditor

Some things I have came across ...

* I have installed and tested the port on 6.1 and 6.2 release (amd64)
* It is called howleditor to avoid conflict with avahi
    * Avahi has a "@conflict howl-*" in PLIST
* I made a small patch in the Makefile to force setting PREFIX variable
  which otherwise is set by ports infrastructure

Any tips for improvements?

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