Home written editors (was Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Zane H. Healy once stated:
> 
> At 2:48 AM -0500 12/30/05, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> 
> >   You wrote your own editor?
> >
> >   -spc (And that's either a slow computer, or you're a very fast
> >	typist ... )
> 
> You haven't?  When I got that funky pen based plotter that Commodore 
> had for my VIC-20, I had to write my own.

  I've written some specialized input routines---mainly to handle dated
numerical input (okay, a program to process lottery numbers, years before
the Internet made such information readily available).  But not general
purpose text editing.

  -spc (Not that I haven't given it thought ... )