Home written editors (was Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

No. It's a derivative of a very old Gosling emacs, and, while I've done nontrivial amounts of work to it, it is still mostly not my code. The display update code is marked with /**************************************************************** /-------------\ / \ / \ / \ | XXXX XXXX | | XXXX XXXX | | XXX XXX | \ X / --\ XXX /-- | | XXX | | | | | | | I I I I I I I | | I I I I I I | \ / -- -- \-------/ XXX XXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXX XXX ************** * BEWARE!! * ************** All ye who enter here: Most of the code in this module is twisted beyond belief! Tread carefully. If you think you understand it, You Don't, So Look Again. ****************************************************************/ And it's not kidding. I once tried to improve that code and succeeded only in both slowing it down significantly and introducing new bugs. Both, though probably the former more so. The computer is fairly fast by my standards, but those standards are quite old (it's a SS20, and each keystroke is being handled by four processes, with output being handled by the same four processes in the other direction, all of this running on the same machine). And yes, I do type fast, probably somewhat over 100wpm when I don't have to stop and think about what to type next. (I just now timed myself retyping the previous two sentences - "The computer...type next" - which is 37 words according to wc; it took me about 15 seconds, plus a few seconds to fix two typos.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B