[Toybox] [PATCH] more.c: More stuff, down cursor key scrolls down. Also stuff about less

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Mar 20 09:58:07 PDT 2024


On 3/20/24 00:39, David Seikel wrote:
> On 2024-03-20 05:02:11, Oliver Webb via Toybox wrote:
>> But I have to ask the question "If it's so easy, why isn't it in toybox yet?" Is it just because
>> other TODO items taking up time, or is it because it's harder to implement than it seems.
> 
> I might be able to shine some light on that.
> 
> Long ago I wrote boxes, designed to be a starting point for a generic
> editor / pager for toybox.  It included very basic implementations of
> less, more, and several well known text editors, including vi.  All done
> as wrappers around a common core.
> 
> Even after trimming it down to just an example shell line editor, it was
> deemed too big to read.

I read it:

http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2015-May/023506.html

Rob


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