[Coco] Cross-platform editor for CoCo BASIC?

Alex Evans varmfskii at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 18:45:03 EST 2023


I don't know where the others are hosted, but mine is at
https://github.com/varmfskii/basic_utils
If you use it and run into issues, please let me know

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:51 AM Allen Huffman via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> > On Jan 31, 2023, at 9:48 AM, Alex Evans via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not an editor at all, but I (and others) have written tools that take
> > either ascii or tokenized BASIC and do the following: convert both ways
> > between tokenized and ascii sources, manage keywords and variable names
> in
> > a case insensitive manner, transform long variable names into short ones,
> > remove extraneous spaces in files, and automatically number/renumber
> files.
> > Something like this combined with any editor configured to perform syntax
> > highlighting might be what you are looking for.
>
> Yes, that is exactly the type of thing I was looking for. I’ve seen at
> least two examples of editors that allow writing in a more modern looking
> “language” and then export to BASIC. I think one was Windows-only, and I
> don’t recall the second.
>
> There is a VI thing that Rick Adams uses that is also similar. At least, I
> think it was VI.
>

I don't know where the others are hosted, but mine is at
https://github.com/varmfskii/basic_utils
If you use it and run into issues, please let me know.


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