[Coco] Would anyone like some snow?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Feb 10 19:09:17 EST 2010


On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On a coco-related note, what's the best word processor for the Coco
>>> 2?  VIP?  I was wondering if anything existed that was better.
>>
>> Whatever works, Aaron.  I used xed/xprint for a while, but I've been
>> using the tsedit patch called vi for what seems like forever.  But with
>> recent versions of nitros9 grabbing that as a device name, I've had to
>> rename it, including internally, to "ed", so history has come full
>> circle.
>
>On that subject, where can I find a reference for that patched tsedit?  It
>certainly understands a few vi commands, but there are many common ones
>that do not seem to be implemented.  For example:  scroll up or down one
>screen at a time - how?  Mark and cut a block of lines by marking them?
>
>Steve

AFAIK, there never was a real set of docs for it that I ever came across.  So 
those aren't there.  What it does do, it does well though.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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