[Coco] Good full screen editor for NitrOS9

[Stephen H. Fischer]

> text files that could grow as large as 100k or more.

> I want to do the editing right on the CoCo(3FPGA)

Those are difficult requirements, do any of the OS-9 editors meet them?

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Trying to track down RED I got to a site that Microsoft considered dangerous and put up a red screen in IE 11.

Another site suggests that the RED text editor in Dr. Dobb's magazine may have been for CP/M.

So I cannot determine if RED is a DEAD END.

Clearly any OS-9 editor that keeps the text in memory cannot have 100k or more.

The Drivewire transfer to a more powerful host sounds like the way I would go.

SHF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Jones" <jejones3141 at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Good full screen editor for NitrOS9


> Sadly, you're right. The most notorious example is ASCII HT, 0x09, which
> someone decided to use for up arrow; I also recall that backquote aka
> accent grave is hosed. Mishandling tab is a definite bummer; if you decide
> to allow it, display code will have to handle it specially, and requiring
> spaces instead of tab pushes you to the RAM limit that much faster.
> 
> RED is on the C User's Group CD-ROM #318, should someone have it and wish
> to port it. I ported a CUG line editor (an ed-ish editor, I think called
> qed); I corrected some weirdness of regular expression syntax, if I
> remember rightly.
>