[Toybox] Editors and such.

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:14:51 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> 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.

That's what I'm working on, common infrastructure for such purposes.

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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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