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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Wanted: WordStar-like editor
Message-ID: <868@stag.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 89 16:11:46 GMT
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Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <6%filbo@ssyx.ucsc.edu> filbo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>What is the SIMPLEST full-screen editor available for UNIX, with source?  I can
>write an editor, but not under UNIX.  Memory and file management, termcap and
>curses would all be new to me.  Examining a simple editor would give me an idea
>how difficult it would be to write this thing.

I recently released my folding editor (FOLDED) to mn.sources (needed
local abuse first). This editor is around 6000 lines of code and
currently has been tested on the IBM PC, Atari ST (TOS and MINIX), and
a number of BSD 4.2 and SYS5 sites. It uses a vi-like command set, but I
recently was able to simulate a rudimentary emacs/wordstar interface
by adding only 40 lines of code (simulating the full command set from
the Turbo Pascal manual didn't look too hard). I used Turbo Pascal for
years and found that I used the editor for most of my PC text editing,
however I never felt that the key sequences were all that good. A
question: Do you really want to have the exact key sequences or just
the functionality of such an editor?

For those of you who requested the sources for FOLDED...I'll shar
together version 0.9d and forward it to comp.sources.unix this week.
The 1.0 release (later this summer) will be toggleable between
vi-like and emacs-like modes (I need to do some code cleanup first).

  -Todd Burkey
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