[Coco] Minted buffer size

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 08 March 2015 00:22:54 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> on minted when a memory allocation fails it tries first to delete your
> oldest undo item. When all undos are gone, then it will show the
> memory full message.

And hitting the break key clears it, for perhaps 500 milliseconds and its 
instantly back, telling you to do it (hit the break key) again. ctl+s or 
ctl+e does nothing because the OOM message cannot be cleared long enough 
to regain control.

> The memory could be just fragmented.

That's my line of thought too, Luis.

> The thing to do when memory is 
> full is to save the file. Reloading it again could give you some
> memory extra but it will report the error soon again.

Even when the file is only 27k?  I did not add 30k worth of comments.  5k 
worth maybe.

The original file is still there, so all I am out is about an hours work. 
I will try to split it up into smaller pieces tomorrow.

> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Stephen, I have never said I used an editor with no line limit,
> > though I was looking for one at one time. I have always (since about
> > 89 or 90?) used "Ed 3.0" by Mike Sweet (author of CGFX7 C library)
> > which has about the same buffer size as TSEdit (or vim/vi). The
> > reason I like Ed is it's a menu driven full screen editor and not
> > line oriented. Ed also supports tabs, cut/copy/paste, and mouse.
> > It's also stable (as most of Mike's stuff was). Not a bunch of
> > commands to remember, though control keys are available for most
> > functions. And No... it is not an OSk editor. It was written on a
> > Coco, for the Coco in OS9 L2 C code.
> >
> > For a "no line limit" editor in OS9, you would have to go with
> > "DynaStar" (Frank Hogg?) or "ScreenStar" (Spectra Systems?), both of
> > which load their buffer dynamically from disk and have no file size
> > limit. Both are similar to "WordStar" and have high learning curves.
> >
> >
> > Bill Pierce
> > "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
> >
> >
> > My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Sat, Mar 7, 2015 11:23 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Minted buffer size
> >
> > I used it at lot when I
> > was using a real CoCo and though I had made it bullet proof, but as
> > many times
> > you said you fired a gun one Saturday, perhaps not.
> >
> > More details would be
> > interesting but then perhaps not as it has been so many years since
> > I looked at
> > the code.
> >
> > The version I started with was from one of the OS-9 user disks and
> > was a real horror and I lost editing sessions many times until it
> > was somewhat
> > stable.
> >
> > We users tend to use programs in ways the author never did so I
> > might have missed something.
> >
> > I gave it to a local CoCo Software collector (Thief) who
> > gave it to a few friends but I never got any feedback or help with
> > the documentation that was promised.
> >
> > All I can say is what a Doctor said when the
> > patent said it hurt when he raised his arm over his head. "Don't do
> > that."
> >
> > Series File Output (ALT CTRL O)  is what I would use to save the
> > current editing session to a file ever so often, there is no room
> > for a timed version
> > like my word processor does.
> > -------------------------------------
> > Bill Pierce
> > once said he was using  an editor with no line limit but thinking
> > about that I
> > do wonder if he was actually using a OSK version.
> >
> > Your comment about "editors
> > that can handle 100 megabyte files." Is how I handle the problem.
> >
> > I have the
> > "C" source code from Dr. Dobbs for "RED" which could handle files
> > bigger than
> > memory.
> >
> > We lost a lot of talent when OSK came out and the people who could
> > have fixed many of the things troubling us just left just like I did
> > when Borland
> > Turbo 'C" showed that there was a better way.
> >
> > SHF
> >
> >
> >
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