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

[Dave Dunfield]

> > >   You wrote your own editor?
> > 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.

I'm surprised that more people haven't written their own editor. An editor was
among the first software projects I did when I built my first computer in the 70s.

Somewhere early to mid 80's I wrote the editor that I still use today. It's not
overly complex, but it supports full-screen (WYSIWYG) and line-by-line
modes and has a reasonable compliment of commands (search/replace/block
functions etc.). Originally in 6809 assembler, I ported it to 'C' sometime later,
and have moved it to every computer that I've done serious work on since.
It's VERY nice to have the same editor "everywhere".

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