[Coco] My new text editor for DECB

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 20:42:12 EDT 2015


I agree on both points.  I have the same wishes.  Kip also asked for a
cntl key to return how much free buffer space is left.   I'll put all
these things on my TODO's.

Maybe a word-wrap toggle mode?


Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm glad you like it.


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Constructive criticism for CCEDIT, and it won't hurt my feelings at all if
> you ignore me completely:
>
> After using the editor, I find myself wishing for the following:
>
> 1)  It is difficult to know when you are reaching 80 col max... possible
> solutions could be a) using a border color other than black so it would be
> obvious as you get close, or b) possibly a beep when you type past col 70,
> something like that.... (think back to the old mechanical typewriter
> days...)
>
> 2)  For typing free text, a limited wrap-around function might be nice so
> that the word you are typing, when you reach col 80, is moved down to the
> next line and continued.  I wouldn't say full document word-wrap would be
> worth doing, more was thinking of a couple simple rules that are checked
> while you are typing:
>
> a)  if the cursor is at col 80, and
> b) you type a letter, not a space, then
> c) maybe search back up to 20 chars or so, and if a space is found, replace
> with a CR?
>
> (really I don't know if the above would be easy or hard...)
>
> Anyway, that was my two cents, and I wouldn't worry about it too much, I'm
> already a fan of the program.  Thanks again.
>
> -RobertH
>
>
> On 2/28/2015 4:19 PM, Brett Gordon wrote:
>>
>> CCEDIT: A Simple Full-Screen Text Editor for the BASIC environment
>> Copyright 2015, Brett M. Gordon
>>
>>
>>
>
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