[Coco] VI Editor

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 03:06:27 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
Thanks, Bill.

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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
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> 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
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> 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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