[Coco] scred Docs

[Bill Pierce]

Curtis, Ed 3.1 has a larger buffer than Window Writer and has most of the features including drop-down menus, mouse cursor, full screen arrow movement, clipboard (for cut, copy & paste), <ALT><CMD> key shortcuts, proportional text, selectable insert/overwrite, find/replace, and selectable screen colors.
Also, Ed 3.1 was written completely in C by Mike Sweet who also wrote the enhanced "CGFX7" C library with MultiVue style menu support (used in Ed). And most of all, it has none of Basic09's memory hogging overhead :-)
Ed requires a ramdisk to use the clipboard, but that's easily patched if not wanted. Installation is easy, just copy it to the CMDS dir and run it. You can save your current Ed configuration as well :-)

Here's a couple of screenshots of Ed in use:

http://yaccs.info/BPIERCECOCO/Pictures/Coco%20Pics/Ed31.jpg
http://yaccs.info/BPIERCECOCO/Pictures/Coco%20Pics/Ed31-2.jpg

The ultimate solution would be to modify Bob van der Poel's "VEd" (since the sources are available) to use "virtual memory" to have a larger text buffer. That would speed it up tremendously and allow text buffers equaling available memory. On a 512k Coco 3, you could load a 300k+ file. On a 2 meg machine (or emulator), I doubt there's any Coco source it wouldn't load :-)

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 24, 2017 12:34 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] scred Docs

Actually, SCRED is kind of hybrid (depending on the terminal type you are running on). You can cursor around on the screen, jumping by character/line/word/beginning and end of line, etc. You do have to switch between cursor movement and editing modes, though, but it is a far cry from the strictly line editing that BASIC-09 and the EDIT editors use.The best editor (for ease of use, although setting it up wasn’t the easiest) was Owlware’s Window Writer, which I mentioned before. It went further than SLED, etc. by allowing mouse cursor movement as well, drop down menus, editing files larger than the program workspace, etc. It was actually a full blown word processor.(and written in BASIC-09 actually, with some assembly language subroutines, if I remember correctly).L. Curtis Boylecurtisboyle at sasktel.net> On Mar 24, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Fadden" <t.fadden at cox.net <mailto:t.fadden at cox.net>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com <mailto:coco at maltedmedia.com>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 8:52 AM> Subject: Re: [Coco] scred Docs> > >> That is not for scred.  The scred manual is part of the os9 Level 2 >> Development System Manual. On 3/24/2017 8:19>> >> It is right above the one Stephen gave you. The correct link is:>> >> >> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Operating%20Systems/OS-9%20Level%20Two%20Development%20System%20(Tandy).pdf>> >> >> I don't know what all the scred bashing is about, I have used it since >> it came out, and have never had any problem. I have heard in the past >> others saying it is bugged. Perhaps some one in the know could enlighten.>> >> Cheers> > SCRED is a line editor and not a screen editor. Just like Basic09's line editor which I found a way to avoid.> > Once you have used a screen editor you will never go back, as least I did to the point of creating a screen editor when none was available.> > Large file editing is one of it's advantages, I simulated that be being able to step through a file, not recommended.> > I saw that horror at work years before and tried to help the lady using it with little success. Going back to a typewriter was not an option but better things would appear soon like screen editors. It was like looking at your document only one line at a time, forget what you have changed in a line before and you need to go back to the start of the document to find what to do next.> > SHF > > > > > -- > Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com <mailto:Coco at maltedmedia.com>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco <https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco