On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 7:50 PM scsijon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do I remember you considering adding a multi-purpose editor into > toybox?, one of our puppy folk came across SUE which origonated from VDE > back in 1982 which was created by Richard Forbes.
Not exactly. Richard Forbes wrote a CP/M editor called VDO. Eric Meyer picked up the source and extended it to become VDE. VDE was intended to be a WordStar clone implemented as a single executable. (Real WordStar for CP/M used overlays.) In 1987, Eric shifted development to MSDOS. Carson Wilson continued development of VDE on CP/M as ZDE. Bill Kuykendall wanted a Linux editor that wasn't vi or emacs. He hired Carson to write a version of VDE for Linux, which Carson did in C. The result was SUE (Simple Unix Editor). I uploaded the copy you found on the Puppy site. I also maintain VDE's current home page, at https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home/. The section devoted to SUE is at https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home/vde-files/sue-history, and you can get binary and and source there too. If you like the WordStar interface, it's worth a look, but it's not clear it should become a Toxbox toy. (I'd love to see it get Rob's optimizations, but I'd like a completed Toybox 1.0 more.) ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
