[Coco] Would anyone like some snow?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Feb 10 19:09:17 EST 2010


On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:

>>> On a coco-related note, what's the best word processor for the Coco

>>> 2? VIP? I was wondering if anything existed that was better.

>>

>> Whatever works, Aaron. I used xed/xprint for a while, but I've been

>> using the tsedit patch called vi for what seems like forever. But with

>> recent versions of nitros9 grabbing that as a device name, I've had to

>> rename it, including internally, to "ed", so history has come full

>> circle.

>

>On that subject, where can I find a reference for that patched tsedit? It

>certainly understands a few vi commands, but there are many common ones

>that do not seem to be implemented. For example: scroll up or down one

>screen at a time - how? Mark and cut a block of lines by marking them?

>

>Steve


AFAIK, there never was a real set of docs for it that I ever came across. So
those aren't there. What it does do, it does well though.

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