Re: [Bug-apl] Line Editor bug?

[enztec]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:51:43 +0200
Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:
> But that was on another interpreter (APL68000) and around 1979 or so, so i 
> could be wrong.
> In those days we used to hack the terminal driver to improve the editing 
> capabilities of the machine.

[2⎕4]  opened line 2 and moved the cursor to position 4   in tcc apl

> I am using cursor up-and-down from readline to recall the line. If you 
> enter eg: 1 2 3 and 4:
cursor up/down doesn't work on existing lines though

I'm using vim to edit functions, variables and ws data exclusively now so the ∇ 
editor is no longer of great concern to me but if you want some testing or 
specific feedback please ask. :)

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nostalgia : 

I was the 1st person in the US to buy a computer with the TCC APL68000 on it 
(on an 8Mhz 68000 Wicat S100 computer that ran the apl from 8" floppy disk with 
3/4 MB of ram which gave me a whopping 500KB workspace). The 1st person/company 
world wide to buy it was a British Insurance Company.

I had all the possible ∇ edit combinations (as well as system functions) 
programmed into the Function keys on a HDS terminal (which had just a bit less 
memory then the computer itself and was almost as powerfull as the 8 mHz 68000 
computer itself was) 

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enztec