[Coco] DECB Editor

[Arthur Flexser]

Still another alternative, if you don't mind my tooting my own horn just a
bit...

I very much liked the Basic program editing capabilities that are built
into ADOS-3/Extended ADOS-3.  You get a kind of hybrid between Basic's line
editor and a screen editor.

With the up and down arrow keys, you can move up or down line by line
within the Basic program that is in memory.  When you hit a line you want
to edit, you hit the right arrow key, which puts you into Basic's edit mode
for that line.  Extended ADOS-3 adds key repeat, so you can go right or
left by holding down the spacebar or backspace keys, and when you get to
the desired edit point, you hit I to insert, D to delete, etc, as in the
normal Basic Edit command.  (You can just use ADOS-3 with the stand-alone
key repeat routine that is on the Ext. ADOS-3 disk;  the full Extended
ADOS-3 isn't needed.)

You can also edit the last direct mode command, to either correct it or
repeat the command unchanged.  It all works very nicely and provides very
fast editing once you get used to it, without the necessity of having to
leave the Basic environment to do your editing.

Art


On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com
> wrote:

> TeleWriter128 was the word processor I used a little for DECB programs.
>
> There is a 64 version also available, I never used it.
>
> It has one disadvantage, Line Wrap is turned on each time you start it.
>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/search.php?q=TeleWriter
>
> SHF
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francis Swygert" <farna at att.net>
> To: <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 4:12 PM
> Subject: [Coco] DECB Editor
>
>
> >> On Dec 9, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> When entering BASIC code on the Coco, does anyone know of a utility that
> >> allows for easier editing of code rather than using the EDIT command or
> >> retyping an entire line? Perhaps an editor that allows for full cursor
> >> movement, but loads into RAM somewhere that doesn't occupy that normal
> RAM
> >> space a BASIC program uses? This editor would just become a new command
> to
> >> run as part of DECB?
> > ====================================
> > I never used an active editor, I used a word processor. Type in the code
> and save it as an ASCII file. The CoCo can read it as a program. I don't
> remember anything special to load it, just name it "xxx.BAS". I'm real
> rusty on my DECB, but you can save a BASIC program as an ASCII file. You'll
> have to look up the info on the save command. I think it was "SAVE
> FILENAME.BAS, A" for DECB....
> > Frank Swygert
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