[TUHS] Remember the ed thread?
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Tue Mar 30 01:51:08 AEST 2021
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 at andykosela.com> wrote:
> On Monday, March 29, 2021, Brantley Coile <brantley at 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
>
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