[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 49, Issue 24

[Paul Fitch]

> 
> 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?