eric@reed.UUCP (08/23/87)
Request for Bids I have a little editor I wrote in C. I want some features added to it. I will entertain bids on making the following upgrades to it in good, clear, portable C. Must run in System V, and in Turbo C under MS-Dos. The editor is currently a "quasi-full-screen" editor: after every operation the screen is redrawn as needed; the cursor is always down at the bottom line of the screen, even though there is a current line somewhere up on the screen. 1. Make the screen-redraw incremental. I already have this to my own satisfaction in Dos using Turbo's scroll() function; if you can give me a scroll function for Unix, that will do. (Currently if Unix, I blank the screen and redraw entirely -- not a terribly good solution.) 2. Get my cursor up in the text and give me basics of screen-editing: character-right, char-left, up, down; characterwise insert and delete. It doesn't really matter how you set up the user-interface as long as you write the code nicely (implementing the arrows on my keypad would be helpful); but if you make it more like vi, I will probably have to change it less. And I don't need bells and whistles; when I see how you do the basics, I can follow suit. Compatibility with Turbo C's gotoxy() would be helpful. I shall entertain bids on this pair of tasks. I shall be leaving town by 14 September, and I would like this matter finished up by that time. Respond by e-mail to tektronix!reed!eric