I don't know of the other tools being available, but...it does look like I
will have this book on Interlibrary Loan for .... quite a while longer.

No promises, but if I get bored this summer.....

Adam

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:33 PM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The "s" editor is written by Webb Miller and appears in his book "A
>> Software Tools Sampler."
>>
>
> Wow, I never knew about this book, though I know ST and STP well, and used
> ST on RSX-11/M+ and VAX/VMS for $EMPLOYER in the 1980s.  Is the rest of the
> source code for the book available online anywhere?
>
> Jez Higgins is rewriting the STP tools into modern C++.  His blog posts
> are at <https://www.jezuk.co.uk/tags/software-tools-in-c++.html> and the
> code is at <https://github.com/jezhiggins/stiX>.  He's rewritten the
> tools in chapters 1 and 2 and part of 3.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> Gotcha.  I actually like line editors (you can't mung your file so
> thoroughly with a single stray keystroke), but I'm willing to trade a
> little standardosity for additional convenience, so I do almost all my
> editing of prose and programs in `ex`, occasionally dropping into vi-mode
> for matching open and close markers in Lisp and XML.
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>
>
> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
> If you have ever wondered if you are in hell, it has been said, then
> you are on a well-traveled road of spiritual inquiry.  If you are
> absolutely sure you are in hell, however, then you must be on the Cross
> Bronx Expressway.  --Alan Feuer, New York Times, 2002-09-20
>
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