[Toybox] Editors and such.

[Rob Landley]

On 06/18/2012 09:48 AM, Jens Staal wrote:
> 2012/6/18 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>:
>> No, they have an implementation of screen. The first one I used (circa
>> 1993) was from Sun.
>>
>> The wonkypedia article says the first pair of maintainers handed it over
>> to a second pair of maintainers who handed it over to the gnu project.
>> So it's a bit like Gold and Patch and Grub and EGCS so on: somebody
>> wrote a thing that worked and the Gnu project managed to take it over
>> and plaster their name all over it as the versions they ship bloat and
>> lose reliability.
> 
> perhaps
> http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
> could be an interesting alternative

Doing a "less" or "vi" implementation is 90% of doing screen. You have a
text buffer that displays on the screen. You write at the current cursor
position to update that text buffer.

That's pretty much what screen and less both do. I'd like to get them to
share infrastructure to do it, which means writing some kind of
lib/buffer.c.

Rob

P.S. Sorry for the delay. Thunderbird is just _eating_ itself since the
last ubuntu package update. It sits  there at 100% cpu for six hours and
then downloads _some_ of the outstanding messages. Today, it gave me 3
days worth of email at once, after telling me i didn't have any.

My new netbook, I'll be setting up a different mail client, I just have
to figure out which one...
-- 
GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code.
Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation.  Pick one.

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