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Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: Roger Ivie
Date: Sep 4, 2008 23:30

On 2008-09-03, Thomas D. Dean speakeasy.org> wrote:
> I have figForth in an embedded system.
>
> I am looking for a serial line screen editor with ascii control
> sequences for an embedded forth system.

Not sure what you have in mind by "screen editor", but I recently
created a simplified clone of the CP/M ED editor in C. Took all of about
two weeks. This was for vxWorks and I can't share the source. But
recreating something like ED from scratch is likely to be less work than
you think it is; ED is really simple.

You might try RED; sounds like it might be up your alley. I haven't used
it (and the editor I thought I would find when googling for RED was
something else entirely). It's written in STOIC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(text_editor)

The RED I was looking for was printed as source code in one of the
computer magazines in the early '80s. A friend of mine typed it in and
used it for quite a while. I forget what language it was written in.

Sources to the CP/M ED editor can be found online at the unofficial CP/M
archive, http://cpm.z80.de/, but the license prohibits commercial use.
--
roger ivie
rivie@ridgenet.net
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