[Coco] Would anyone like some snow?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Feb 10 21:09:23 EST 2010
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> On a coco-related note, what's the best word processor for the Coco
>>>>> 2? VIP? I was wondering if anything existed that was better.
>>>>
>>>> Whatever works, Aaron. I used xed/xprint for a while, but I've been
>>>> using the tsedit patch called vi for what seems like forever. But with
>>>> recent versions of nitros9 grabbing that as a device name, I've had to
>>>> rename it, including internally, to "ed", so history has come full
>>>> circle.
>>>
>>> On that subject, where can I find a reference for that patched tsedit?
>>> It certainly understands a few vi commands, but there are many common
>>> ones that do not seem to be implemented. For example: scroll up or
>>> down one screen at a time - how? Mark and cut a block of lines by
>>> marking them?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> AFAIK, there never was a real set of docs for it that I ever came across.
>> So those aren't there. What it does do, it does well though.
>
>Have you found page-up and page-down? Those I miss.
>
Seems like I faintly recall that as being the shifted arrow keys on the 3's
keyboard (I think & my good book is about 4" down in this midden heap.)
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