Editor in Spin?

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Outside of the editor in FemtoBASIC, (after a fashion) Has anyone created any code that resembles a text editor which would save/load from SD? One of my projects is to replace the brain of my TRS80 M100 with a propeller-addon (via terminal) and I'm curious if I'm re-inventing the wheel?

Thanks
Oldbit

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The comments and code above are proof that a million monkeys with a million propeller chips *could* write Shakespeare!

Paul Baker

I at one point wrote a line edit object, however I got side tracked and haven't tested it. Your welcome to it if you want it, I wrote it so that you have a buffer and pass it characters it either adds or acts upon if it's a special character. It is not tied to any input or output device. It was written as a field editor, but it should be alterable to a general editor. Mike's might be a better starting point, I haven't compared the two.

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Paul,

Would love to take a look at your code.. It could be a helpful jumping off place for what I have in mind.

Thanks
Oldbit

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The comments and code above are proof that a million monkeys with a million propeller chips *could* write Shakespeare!

Paul Baker

Here you go, like I said before it's untested so caveat emptor.

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

Mike Green

Download the Propeller OS from the Object Exchange. It has the beginnings of an editor in it including a general purpose line/screen editor that allows one to edit the screen buffer. There are provisions for exiting when other control codes are entered, like for moving from screen to screen. It was never developed further.

Paul Baker

Looking over the code quickly for any obvious mistakes, any charactor processed in the case statement should return from there, otherwise the routine will report it as an error.

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Paul Baker
Propeller Applications Engineer

Parallax, Inc.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Mike,

Didn't find it in the Object Exchange... However it is listed in the "Good Links" Thread. Curious, Did you every release a version that incorporated the SD routines?

Oldbit

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The comments and code above are proof that a million monkeys with a million propeller chips *could* write Shakespeare!

Mightor

Think of all the uses you could have for a vi-clone running on your bot. You don't have to take your laptop with you anymore, just take your robot. When people ask, just say "Hey, backoff, that's my editor." No need to carry it either, just set it to follow you around.

Gr,
Mightor

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QuattroRS4

Paul Baker (Parallax) said...
Here you go, like I said before it's untested so caveat emptor.

I'd say you are safe there Paul - with the 'buyer beware' bit unless some money passed hands unknown to us !

Regards,
Quattro

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'Necessity is the mother of invention'

Post Edited (QuattroRS4) : 7/24/2007 4:02:04 AM GMT

Mike Green

OldBitCollector,
Sorry, you're right ... I haven't put it into the Object Exchange. I also didn't add any SD card support. What happened is that I got involved with FemtoBasic and BoeBotBasic. The SD card support is pretty large memory-wise and the Propeller OS wouldn't fit anymore into hub memory the way it was written (with SD card support). I'm slowly working on redoing it differently internally so it's smaller. It'll be a while since it's a complete rewrite.