[Coco] Good full screen editor?

[Joel Ewy]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 06 August 2007, Paul Fitch wrote:
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>> Ok, I'm trying to use Mike Sweets ED 3.1, but I'm not feeling the love.
>> Half the time the buffer gets full before my source gets loaded.  The other
>> half, it loads, but the copy buffer doesn't work.
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> TS-Edit, patched to become vi, has always worked well for me, and can be 
> launched with a #56k buffer on a coco3.
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I second that, though if you don't already know vi, you might find it a
little mystifying.
>> I'm really not wanting to learn how to use the standard edit.
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>> In the 10 years I've been away, no one has written a usable full screen
>> editor?  Even basic uSoft NOTEPAD has more functionality than I've seen so
>> far under OS9.  I'm sure that line editors were all the rage in 1979, but we
>> know better now.  Anyone?
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> VED by Bob Van Der Pohl, and XED both come to mind as being somewhat better,  
> Dynastar works well but handles large files at only 14k at a time which is a 
> PITA.
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I remarked on VED in a different reply, but I've never used XED.  Might
be fun to try it.  I do remember using SLED, and finding it reasonably
useful before I got VED.  IIRC, SLED can handle files larger than
available memory.

JCE
>> Oh, and VCC NEEDS BRACKETS.  Can't even edit C source with them.  They are
>> not a choice allowed under VCC at this time.
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