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:

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 4:54 PM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been trying to set up UUCP on my V7 system and its raspberry Pi host. This plus the "s" editor (already working)

What is this "s" editor? The v7 man pages say nothing about it, and of course Dr. Google is equally unhelpful.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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