The "s" editor is written by Webb Miller and appears in his book "A
Software Tools Sampler."  There was a discussion about it...here, or COFF,
or cctalk, or the PiDP-11 mailing list....a few months ago.  Someone had
already done the lifting to make it classic v7-compatible, but I don't
remember who.

Its interface is very close to vi, but it is quite compact and works well
on v7.

I have a fork of it that has the needed tweaks for PDP-11 v7 up at
https://github.com/athornton/s .

Since I find ed thoroughly unpleasant to use, having a screen editor was a
must for me to use v7 for any length of time, and s fills that role rather
nicely.

Adam

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 3:50 PM John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 4:54 PM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've been trying to set up UUCP on my V7 system and its raspberry Pi
>> host.  This plus the "s" editor (already working)
>>
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> What is this "s" editor?  The v7 man pages say nothing about it, and of
> course Dr. Google is equally unhelpful.
>
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> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
> We call nothing profound that is not wittily expressed.
>         --Northrop Frye (improved)
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