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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Line editors - Commodore's own "c:ed"
Summary: Check out "ked" -- an Amiga version of Unix "ed"
Message-ID: <2523@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 10 Feb 90 18:02:20 GMT
References: <76879@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <76879@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, sutton@whelk.cis.ohio-state.edu (roy a sutton) writes:
> This question is directed toward someone at Commodore  or  anyone
> who knows why the "ed" line editor opens it own window.  The edi-
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Actually "edit" is the line editor.  "ed" is a *screen* editor.
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> tor would be more versatile if it would  work  with  the  calling
> window  if  one exists -- like sys:utilities/more... and opened a
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"Commodore's "more" does at least give the appearance of "taking over"
the window of the shell in which it is called.  That is, it appears to be
doing more than merely accessing "stdin", "stdout", and "stderr".
It is a little difficult to take over the shell window in which you are
called because you need to do gymnastics to find the pointer to that
window.  So in some sense you are fighting the system when you do it.
At the very least you are taking over something that really isn't yours.
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> custom window only if it were "run" (ie run c:ed).
> 
> My question: Is there a version of c:ed  that  works  within  the
> calling  window  as  stated above?  Or is the source available so
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There is a program called "ked" that is an Amiga version of Unix "ed".
It does appear to run within its parent shell window.  It was included
in the "RCS" release by Ray Brand and Rick Schaefer and may be found on
a Fish Disk somewhere around 280.  I cannot say whether it can be run
"remotely".
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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
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