5 Jul
2020
5 Jul
'20
12:34 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:33 PM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The "s" editor is written by Webb Miller and appears in his book "A
Software Tools Sampler."
Wow, I never knew about this book, though I know ST and STP well, and used
ST on RSX-11/M+ and VAX/VMS for $EMPLOYER in the 1980s. Is the rest of the
source code for the book available online anywhere?
Jez Higgins is rewriting the STP tools into modern C++. His blog posts are
at <https://www.jezuk.co.uk/tags/software-tools-in-c++.html> and the code
is at <https://github.com/jezhiggins/stiX>. He's rewritten the tools in
chapters 1 and 2 and part of 3.
Since I find ed thoroughly unpleasant to use, having a screen editor was a
must for me to use v7 for any length of time, and s
fills that role rather
nicely.
Gotcha. I actually like line editors (you can't mung your file so
thoroughly with a single stray keystroke), but I'm willing to trade a
little standardosity for additional convenience, so I do almost all my
editing of prose and programs in `ex`, occasionally dropping into vi-mode
for matching open and close markers in Lisp and XML.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
If you have ever wondered if you are in hell, it has been said, then
you are on a well-traveled road of spiritual inquiry. If you are
absolutely sure you are in hell, however, then you must be on the Cross
Bronx Expressway. --Alan Feuer, New York Times, 2002-09-20