[Coco] Minted buffer size

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 March 2015 09:07:58 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> The internal malloc system implemented does not compute free space.
> It's a costly operation to run through all free memory chunks
> computing them. It never does that except where the memory is over.
>
> If you want to play, in the @input loop, create a counter variable,
> and when it reaches 10 keystrokes call this method:
>
> _mcheck
> ldx #1024
> lbsr __malloc
> lbcs @error
> lbsr _free
> rts
> @error
> ldb #E$MemFul
> lbra _error

> But it should count only edit keystrokes, not navigational. So
> increment the counter in each of the: @enter, @delete, @backspace,
> @char, @ctrl_k, @ctrl_d, @ctrl_u
>
> This would make it :)

Would this also count the file that has been loaded?  I am adding 
comments to the bootlink source, just to refresh my own mind & make it a 
bit more obvious as to what subroutines in it that I re-use to display 
the vdisk its currently linked to if someone does a "bootlink -?"
The src .asm file is currently $6B12 bytes on the disk, but I've no clue 
how it is arranged in memory once loaded.  The older tsedit, patched to 
vi, and since to vim because of the device name clash, has a #56k buffer 
maximum, and it also doesn't warn you when its about out of memory.

That is precisely why the rbf.asm file in the nitros9 repo is nearly 
devoid of comments, no room left in a 56k buffer for them.  I was quite 
often down to less than 100 bytes remaining when I last worked on it.

So what I want to know basically, is how much cushion do I have left. 
Something that if displayed on the ctl-o screen, would be most helpful.

Other than this, I find Minted is growing on me.  Thank you for it.

> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
>
> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's me.
> >
> > RIght now there is no such feature. It must be implemented.
> >
> >
> > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> >> A question for the minted author;
> >>
> >> Is there a way to ascertain when I am within nominally 1 kilobyte
> >> of being out of working memory?
> >>
> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>