[Coco] Program to read text files

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 02 October 2015 08:50:00 Mathieu Chouinard wrote:

> Is there something like "vi" ?
> I don't feel like learning another editor :)

There is a patch extant that turns ts-edit into a vi that almost works 
like vi,  but today, the /vN descriptors have usurped that name, so I 
had to rename it to "vim" both in the directory, and internally to 
remove the name clash in nitros9.  Its a decent editor, and as it fits 
in an 8k block, it can open and edit a file up to 56k in total size.  No 
other editor we have by any name can touch that.

DynaStar can do larger files, but its work buffer is only about 10k and 
can only cycle forward thru the file, not backwards.

So using it where you need to frequently go back and trim the programs 
setup preamble is a major session in disk thrashing as you have to exit 
that big file by loading the buffer and re-writing until the EOF has 
been reached and it can be closed.  Then you reload the top of the file 
to make the next edit there.  Wash, rinse, dry well, and repeat turns 
into a PITA tinme sink eventually.

"vim" is the only editor I've used on the coco for at least 15 years now, 
it Just Works(TM).  Unforch, its vertical tab screen controls are not 
recognized in one of the green screens drivewire can open on my linux 
screen.  Because of that, any editing I do on the coco MUST be done from 
the coco's own screen and keyboard.

> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Also, isn't Luis's "MinTED" screen editor part of standard Nitros9
> > distrib now?
> >
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68869
> >
> >
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