[Coco] VI Editor

[Bill Pierce]

Gene, in the NitrOS9's current state, Vi.dd belongs to VRN.drv. I think they used the modified version someone on Delphi wrote years ago to match the functionality of the AGIVIRQDr/Vi pair and added user friendly functionality to it as a virtual memory driver. I can't remember who wrote it at the moment.
I figure you never realized the Sierra games had that descriptor from the beginning. I remember some of the older NitrOS9 releases actually had those drivers in the boot as default so you may have hit one of those. Currently, they're only present on the Seirra disk images :-)

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 20, 2018 1:46 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] VI Editor

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.> Bill Pierce> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way> to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com>>>>>> -----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>> <http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>-- Cheers, Gene Heskett--"There are> four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and> ammo. Please use in that order."-Ed Howdershelt (Author)Genes Web page> <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>-- Coco mailing> listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/co>co-- Cheers, Gene Heskett--"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."-Ed Howdershelt (Author)Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco