[Coco] VI Editor

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 01:20:44 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> Gene, just so you know... Vi wasn't "recently claimed" by NitrOS9. It
> was the name of the descriptor for the AGIVIRQDrv driver "originally"
> written for the Sierra games King's Quest III & Leisure Suit Larry
> over 30 years ago (1986), distributed by Tandy, and predates your
> patch by a few years... NitrOS9 just reclaimed it back. Back in the
> late 80s, I started using patched TSEdit (then named Vi) and had to
> rename it as my boots included the Sierra driver.
>
Bill; Humm, not being much of a gamer, I did not know that until vi quit 
working with a strange error, several years back, 10 maybe. I found the 
copy on disk with dEd and renamed it vim, which brought it back to life.

I don't have any of the Sierra stuff in my bootfile so I blamed it on 
some new windowing utility stripped out of what is now vtio.

Thanks, Bill.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 11:54 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] VI Editor
>
> On Monday 19 February 2018 20:26:59 Mark McDougall wrote:> On
> 20/02/2018 10:00 AM, phil pt wrote:> > Does anyone know the VI
> commands to move the cursor to the start> > mark a block then move the
> cursor down and mark the end block and> > copy & past it in the file. 
> checked the internet and I can not find> > any clear steps on how to
> do it?>> I think you need to learn the secret handshake first, before
> you start> using VI (or emacs)...>> Regards,>The vi (now vim on my
> machines) made from TSEdit has no relationship to vi/vim on the *nixes
> other than being a 2 mode utility like vi/vim. So see the TSEdit
> manual for all the details. It is IMO, the best editor we have for the
> coco's because as an editor, it can run with a buffer of #56k, meaning
> it is less than 8k in total size. The original patch changed its name
> to vi, but in recent nitros9, vi has been claimed for a vtype window
> device. So you'll need to use dEd to extend its name to vim, with bit
> d7 set in the m character, but zeroed in the i character. The basic
> editor is the same regardless, so see the TSEdit docs for how to run
> it to its greatest effect.> --> Mark McDougall>
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