Thank you for describing your workflow with EDITor. I have found the following in the source code at https://github.com/uli/basicengine-firmware/tree/master/doc
It is file "e.README" which is a manual for the editor. I have not tried it out yet but knowing that you are having success integrating the editor I think I will give it a try.
e' version 0.993
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e' is minimalistic text editor
- inspired by Norton Editor for DOS
- insert/replace mode, block operations with highlighting, find and replace,
goto line
- writed on C with ncurses, should compile anywhere
- tested with
- - FreeBSD 2.2.8-7.2
- - RedHat 6.2
- - SunOS 2.6-10
- file loaded entirely in memory, you limited only to what realloc(3) return
Controls
~~~
charasters, Enter, Up, Down, Left, Right, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Del, Backspace
standart behavior
ins toggle insert mode
^ X exit
^ S save file as
^ T goto top of text
^ O goto bottom of text
^ Y delete current line
^ Q quote next charaster (put in text nonprintable symbol)
^ A go to line by number (or beginnig of selection if number not specified)
^ F find string (not regexp, usual string, exact case)
^ R replace one string by another
^ N repeat last operation of find or replace
^ B mark begin of block (you'll see if beginning mark before ending)
^ E mark end of block
^ C copy marked block to current position
^ V move marked block to current position
^ D delete marked block
^ P put (write) block in file
^ G get (load) block from file
^ J same as PgUp
^ K same as PgDn
Hints
- you can edit binary files because `e' don't format anything
- to reset block selection put ending mark before or at beginning mark (BE)
- you can convert Dos files (crlf) to Unix (lf) easily: while pressing
Ctrl print trqmmmnnnnnnnnn... 🙂
- and back to Dos: trqjmqmqjmnnn...
- by analogy be careful to Ctrl while printing something like 'tboed'
- there is no autosave or some kind of that, so backup your data in time
Bugs
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- many operations on every getch: erase() and COLS*LINES addch(),
but i don't think its so bad (scrolling is optimised, so on telnet session
to 386 i feel the same speed like vi).
- bad documentation, which counts only this file in terrible english
without man page, i would be very thankful if someone can write it
Copyrights
~~~~~
- as is, no warranties at all
- you can do with this sources whatever you want, except if you use
latest version of this program and found a bug, you must inform me about it
Credits
~~
Mtv Europe <mtve1927@gmail.com>
initial release