[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 49, Issue 24

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Paul Fitch wrote:

>> Message: 10

>> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:50:39 -0600

>> From: Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>

>> Subject: [Coco] screen editors

>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com

>> Message-ID: <200708070850.l778odDS002920 at virgo.sdc.org>

>>

>> I usually use uemacs, though it certainly does have buffer size

>> limits.

>>

>> stevie is also a reasonable choice, but be careful with it:  It's a vi

>> clone, so it uses <escape> a lot... but doesn't catch the EOF signal

>> OS-9 sends it if you type the wrong esc-key combo.

>>

>> For big stuff I use ds.  It's rock solid, and can handle files bigger

>> that its buffer, but uses Wordstar keybinds.

>>

>> There's also scred, in the Dev System.  Like TS-EDIT it sort-of

>> pretends to be vi.

>>

>> I've only used the linux version of VED, which probably doesn't have

>> the same look-and-feel of the OS-9 original, since it uses the

>> f1-f7 keys. ;-)

>>

>> Willard

>> --

>> Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org

>> Socorro, New Mexico, USA

>> "I've never been to Contempt!  Isn't that somewhere in New Mexico?"

>>    --- Yacko

>

>What is ds?


DynaStar, the text editor package of a group of packages that Frank Hogg 
Laboratories sold way back then.  There was also a DynaCalc, which I used to 
do my taxes with for several years, until WV finally succeeded in building a 
re-entrant tax law that when you did it their way, gave you a different 
answer everytime you pressed the recalc key.  At that point I said screw it 
and handed it all over to H&R Block.  Both were really excellent pieces of 
software in their time.  There were at least 2 more packages in that family, 
DynaSpell comes to mind and the last one may have been Dyna(Print/Form I 
forget which).  I never saw either of those two however since at the time I 
was working on PrintForm, which worked great till the ink squirters took over 
for the daisy wheels and pin pounders (dot matrix) of the day.

-- 
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