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Hi Paul,

MS> You can't make many assumptions about how an OS handles memory.
MS> I'd be surprised if your routines worked on my Amiga.  :)

PE> I don't know if you are aware of an editor called "MSGED",

Yes, I've seen you mention it.  FWIW, Bob Stout, the current C_ECHO
moderator & Snippets compiler uses MSGED.

PE> available for DOS + OS/2?  Anyway, it's completely public domain
PE> with C source code, and I have just recently ported it to
PE> Amigados

Cool!

PE> - but there's a catch.  To do it, I used ANSI control codes,
PE> because it required me to know very little about the internals
PE> of Amiga-specific programming.

Understood.  ANSI sequences can be quite effective, and there are a
few Amiga extensions to the ANSI standard that may help.  Still,
console IO is slow compared to direct rendering of text.  Remember,
there is no "text mode" on the Amiga - all text has to be rendered
by the blitter (or a fast CPU pretending to be a blitter :).

PE> Are you at all interested in having a
PE> public-domain-with-C-source editor on the Amiga?

Sure, we already have several good ones, AFAIK, but it would be nice
to have something that is portable and totally PD, and hopefully
nicer than GNU Emacs.  :)

PE> If so, are you interested in doing the work required to make it
PE> a little bit prettier than it is now?  If you are, let me know
PE> and I'll send you the current source code.

I'm interested, but how big is it (archived with lharc)?  My main
machine has a dead serial port (zapped by lightning) & I'm using a
tiny machine with a borrowed 2400 baud modem and no harddrive to do
mail.  Any files that I DL have to fit on an 880k floppy.  :(

PE> Otherwise, you can wait for when I release it officially, which
PE> will just be the monochrome ANSI pretty crappy codes.

Blech!  Monochrome editors are pretty austere, IMHO.  I hope you can
get that code to me.  FWIW, it'll have to be brilliant to stop me
using this baby, CygnusEd.  :) I suppose I could add an ARexx port
to MSGED ...

Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits.

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