[Coco] My new text editor for DECB

[Stephen H. Fischer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hermanek" <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] My new text editor for DECB


> Constructive criticism for CCEDIT, and it won't hurt my feelings at all 
> if you ignore me completely:
> 
> After using the editor, I find myself wishing for the following:
> 
> 1)  It is difficult to know when you are reaching 80 col max... possible 
> solutions could be a) using a border color other than black so it would 
> be obvious as you get close, or b) possibly a beep when you type past 
> col 70, something like that.... (think back to the old mechanical 
> typewriter days...)
> 

While I consider it unpleasant as it is not seen on any other editor, it was suggested to me to use "<" in the rightmost column if the line contained a <CR> and if the line continued onto the next line a ">" with a different background color.

This can be seen in this screen shot:      http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=827#p827

In that sample Colorful Sled is using a two color graphics screen with 106 characters per line.

Normally with colored text the ">" is in yellow if I remember correctly.

As Colorful Sled uses the colors the window is set up for you can have up to four editing sessions on a single window.

That may require OS-9 as the Windows of NitrOS-9 are not set up properly.

SHF

> 2)  For typing free text, a limited wrap-around function might be nice 
> so that the word you are typing, when you reach col 80, is moved down to 
> the next line and continued.  I wouldn't say full document word-wrap 
> would be worth doing, more was thinking of a couple simple rules that 
> are checked while you are typing:
> 
> a)  if the cursor is at col 80, and
> b) you type a letter, not a space, then
> c) maybe search back up to 20 chars or so, and if a space is found, 
> replace with a CR?
> 
> (really I don't know if the above would be easy or hard...)
> 
> Anyway, that was my two cents, and I wouldn't worry about it too much, 
> I'm already a fan of the program.  Thanks again.
> 
> -RobertH
> 
> 
> On 2/28/2015 4:19 PM, Brett Gordon wrote:
>> CCEDIT: A Simple Full-Screen Text Editor for the BASIC environment
>> Copyright 2015, Brett M. Gordon