29 Mar
2021
29 Mar
'21
9:51 p.m.
Consider: Webb Miller's 's' - It been on my 'todo' list to get
it running
on 6th edition, but I admit that is low on my priority list. But I have
run it on a couple of other 8-bit systems
-- from the readme ---
# s
A tiny vi like screen editor
Original sources were published in this book:
Author: Webb Miller
Title: A software tools sampler
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA ©1987
ISBN: 0-13-822305-X
Martin, a guy from one of my hangouts named <c.o.cpm>, located
the sources from this book. The repository starts from these
original sources. Martin also provided the initial CP/M patches
for compiling with HI-TECH C. Then the sources were overworked,
to get it compiled without warnings on old systems with K&R
C compiler, as well as modern systems with ANSI C compiler.
This version of s is known to compile on:
HI-TECH C for the Z80 under CP/M
clang under OSX
clang and gcc under Linux
Mark Williams K&R C compiler under COHERENT
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:46 AM Andy Kosela <akosela(a)andykosela.com> wrote:
On Monday, March 29, 2021, Brantley Coile
<brantley(a)coraid.com> wrote:
From 1984, when I stopped using vi (vee eye), until the early 1990's,
when
I could use Sam, I used a slightly hacked version
of ed. I added
what the Labs called the "b" command. I had use some other character.
Dennis
Ritchie sent me a 8th Edition Unix manual, and I
saw they had added
almost
the same thing and called the command by the
second letter. Vi called
it the last letter, "z."
I've never found ed slows me down. Some things I would have used awk/sed
for that I now use Sam's command window for, but that's a bad thing. I
still
use ed a lot along side Sam.
If ed(1) had cursor positioning and full screen capabilities along
with line oriented editing (similar to Atari 8-bit default editor) it
would be perfect. I still love it though and use it pretty often.
--Andy