[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Tue May 14 12:27:33 EDT 2013


for exiting the help menu press CTRL+E it's a break/esc surrogate.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 May 2013 11:25:18 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) did opine:
>
> > > for the 6809.  MinTED has promise as a vim replacement but needs a
> > > help card that can be printed out since the command keys are
> > > different.
> >
> > You don't need a card. You just need to remember to press CTRL+O for
> > Online Help ;)
>
> That I found Luis, but then the 64K question is how to exit that help
> screen.  By the time I've figured that out, I've forgotten why I called the
> help screen in the first place. :(
>
> Its the hereafter syndrome at my age.  Thats where you get up and go into
> another room, then have to stop and think "what I am I here after?"
> Sometimes the empty coffee cup in your hand is the clue to refresh the wet
> ram that you were headed to the Mr. Coffee for a refill, but not always. :(
>
> > But stop complaining, i made very few functions that will fit in any
> > "old memory cells" ;)
> >
> > they are:
> >
> > SHIFT+LEFT - backspace (delete to left)
> > SHIFT+RIGHT  - delete (delete to right)
> > SHIFT+UP - page up
> > SHIFT+DOWN - page down
> > CTRL+K kill line
> > CTRL+D duplicate line
> > CTRL+S save file
> > CTRL+R rename file
> > CTRL+E exit
> > CTRL+O online help
>
> Which needs one more, a CTRL+U to undo what you just did, in case that
> wasn't what you wanted to do.  Say 5 levels deep if memory can be found to
> save that much data.
>
> Then we would truly have a tsedit/vi/vim killer.
>
> Printed, FFR, thanks Luis.
> > I don't like bloatware programs since nobody use more than few
> > functions. There is no print functions too. Who still print on coco ?
>
>
> Cheers, Gene
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