[Coco] Minted buffer size

[James C. Hrubik]

Stephen, I’m supposed to have a wacky sense of humor, but I have to agree with Bill.  I never had more than 512K to work with but used Ed 3.1 for years (it replaced TW64 after I went all-OS9) until I switched to Macs.  Ed was very stable, and easy to use.

On Mar 8, 2015, at 12:58 AM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> That entire post read very funny to me and very unreal for a CoCo 3 with even 8 MB.
> 
> I will banish it from my memory.
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Minted buffer size
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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
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