[Coco] CoCo OS-9 termcap

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 17 April 2013 03:48:25 Lothan did opine:

> From: Allen Huffman
> 
> > Is there a termcap for CoCo OS-9?
> 
> I think Gene has a termcap library on his site (look for termcap.ar). If
> I remember correctly, I think it's also on RTSI somewhere.

IIRC, DynaStar used that.  So if you had DynaStar, you needed/had it.  But 
once I'd tried tsedit with the vi patch, I never looked back.  You could 
start that with a 56k buffer, and edit the whole RBF.mn assembly source if  
you were careful about comments.  DS's 3 paragraph, non-adjustable size 
buffer made that impossible. The only way to edit something in the middle 
of a file that size was to open it, cycle thru it till  you got to where 
you had forgot to cross a t, fix that, and cycle through the buffer reload 
pain just to write & close the file.  On a floppy system back in those 
days, it was painful.

The tsedit/vi thing is now called vim on my machine, Boisy's renaming of 
the VDGInt screen device names to /Vn made vi unusable as a name, but since 
the string space for the name was still 6 chars long, renaming it 
internally to vim wasn't anything that dEd couldn't handle.  It is still 
the only editor I use, never was able to figure out how to use colorful 
sled, no help docs that I've found.

Cheers, Gene
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