text editor in a taskwindow

Does anyone know of a simple text editor that works inside a TaskWindow or on the command line?. I would like to be able to make some simple changes to a file without going to the desktop. Something like nano or pico for example.

sed! (someone had to…)

Anybody bother to 32-bit-ise Twin? Or even run PipeDream 2 under Aemulor?

sed

Thanks – that’s just the ticket:-)

There might be an ed or ex clone somewhere…

!ne will run in a taskwindow as a line editor or full-screen as a screen editor (or in the WIMP as a WIMP task!).
ne

If you’re really hard-core, ECCE is a very powerful context editor (like a line editor, but more so!) for a taskwindow or full-screen
ECCE

in a graphtask window, fue (folding microEMACS 3.10) seems to work except for arrow keys (^F ^N etc work) also works fine full-screen.
fue

In a nettle ansitask there’s a port of vim.

there was an edlin clone but afaik it’s 26-bit only…

Twin has been 32-bitted, afaik it’s full-screen only but it might work in a graphtask?

(edit, you’re also looking for full-screen?!)

If you’re really hard-core, ECCE is a very powerful context editor

I used to use that heavily on a VAX. Brilliant editor for use on a serial terminal. Allows for example "find in a line, insert a line before this one, add “show ”, move down and repeat. All using single-letter commands.

So you could for example produce a file list, then for each file setup "delete <file>_1", then "copy <file> <file>_1", then "delete <file>", all with a one-line command repeated to the end of the input file.

(Just don’t ask me for the commands to do that – it was 20 years ago.)

Link for 32-bit Twin would be handy!

http://www.croftnuisk.co.uk/coltsoft-downloads/other/Twin.zip

(are you the same Stuart Swales (1481) who posted this link to General in 2016?)

In the old Stuttgart ftp (via internet archive) there’s also a twin/spk which is a BASIC !twin wrapper so twin can be run from the WIMP. It’s still full-screen.

Yes, that’s me! And that Twin is archaic (i.e. of RISC OS 2 vintage)!

If you have a newer version? :-)

I’m not an old-school Acorn guy, so all I know about Twin is what I’ve read here. I can’t tell archaic from current!

Humm the binary is dated 1988 but seems to work fine on my pi2 with RO5.28…

Yeah, upon further testing, no in fact the twin I have doesn’t actually work…

oops sorry… :-(

Rick Murray’s 32bit verion of twin (because i keep loosing it)
http://heyrick.eu/random/twinhack.zip

I used to use TWIN many decades ago, but unlike vi which I never managed to forget, I haven’t a clue on how to work it. I ran a copy and had to Alt+Break as I couldn’t even out of it. Is there any documentation anywhere?

unlike vi which I never managed to forget

I have mental scars like that.

PDF version of a scan of the user guide in the archive three posts up.
Source code too.

there was an edlin clone but afaik it’s 26-bit only…

Oh wow. I haven’t heard that name in 30 years.

It was my first notable (!) ARM program, after prime number fiddling. Written as a joke to irritate people on Arcade BBS. But it did mostly work.

There is, of course, a real `Pico` for RISC OS which I ported some years back, and found very useful in updating files after the OS was 32bitted but the Desktop/Edit wasn’t working.

https://github.com/gerph/pico

It worked pretty well back in the day. As I recall it runs under RISC OS Pyromaniac relatively well, although when running on Pyromaniac it’s better to just use the built in TWIN implementation’s `*Edit` command, as that launches a `nano` on the native system. However, that won’t help you as you’re not using that (and it’s not on the shell.riscos.online machine.

I’ve installed it on `shell.riscos.online` to see how well it works…

*cdir pico
*dir pico
*urlcopy <a href="https://github.com/gerph/pico/releases/download/v4.10/Pico-4.10.zip">https://github.com/gerph/pico/releases/download/v4.10/Pico-4.10.zip</a> Pico-410/zip
*miniunzip -v Pico-410/zip
Archive: Pico-410/zip
   creating: !Pico
  inflating: CPYRIGHT
  inflating: ReleaseNote
  inflating: pilot
  inflating: !Pico.!Sprites
  inflating: !Pico.!Run
  inflating: !Pico.pico
  inflating: !Pico.!Boot

7 objects extracted.
*build pico
     1 /<Obey$dir>.!Pico.pico %*0
     2
*settype pico obey
*Pico ReleaseNote
... displays the release notes

Although it seems under `shell.riscos.online` I need to use shift-ctrl-x to exit. I think that’s just a feature of the shell, like it needing me to use shift-ctrl-c instead of Escape.

Anyhow, it seems to work.