Re: tcl and editor

Billy Tanksley <tanksley@fallbrook.csusm.edu>
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 15:23 PST
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From: Billy Tanksley <tanksley@fallbrook.csusm.edu>
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Subject: Re: tcl and editor
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On Thu, 3 Feb 1994, Malcom Strandberg 289 wrote:

> And to your question, "can I help?":
>   Besides testing the result. What I feel we need is a better
>   zoomer editor, here is some of what I feel it should have:
> 
> 1. everything the aol editor can do, must be ascii based editor.
>    (There was some earlier comments about Palm's Notebook file
>     format being efficient..maybe for Palm, but it clearly
>     isn't efficient for storage compared to straight ascii text.
>     TCL will definitely run standard ascii scripts.)

Try running Ensamble's Text File Editor on the Zoomer-- it will probably
work, and provides all those functions (Ascii, large file size, etc.)

> 2. add a user customizable scrolling word paste list

We (Geos users) will have to work on thet.

> 3. add a user customizable symbol/short-word pallette.
>    2. and 3. are basically 2 ways to do the same thing: provide
> 	a pick list for common words or symbols.
[...]
> 
> An editor like this could be used for anything, but with specific
> scroll lists and pallettes it will take on the flavor of the job
> or programming language as appropriate.
> 

Well, I'll try to make my forth editor incorporate as many of those
features as I can...  it will be, in the end, a very flexible programmable
editor, even though its main format will NOT be ascii (I want fonts and
nifty commenting).  After all, the editors of forth are part of the forth
compiler and respond to forth commands.
Oh, of course I will make it able to export/import anything, like the rest
of Geos.

-Billy
Geoambitious Geoproject, huh?