Re: desperate for help

In article <3pelab$gkp@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, helen%eisinc@hustle.rahul.net (Helen Lawson) wrote: > Not an informix question - but.... > > I know there are a lot of unix gurus on this list and thought you > might be able to help. > > I'm running SCO unix System V and am looking for the source code for a > text editor written in C - probably using the curses library. > > I need a text editor that doesn't take long to load - and most importantly - > the only thing I can't figure out how to do in curses is when I allow > the user to enter in a line of text - how can I stop them from typing > when they get to what should be the right hand margin? > > I think there has to be some source out there for a text editor that is > already written in curses so thought it would be easier to ask then to > re-create the wheel. > > Thanks for your help. > > Helen > helen@eisinc.com (Please do not do an automatic reply to this message) > or lawson@larry.wizvax.net Pico is in the public domain and is a fairly robust, user-friendly editor that does feature word wrap. I believe emacs also has a word-wrap feature and there is certainly plenty of source available for emacs. (Though the source I've looked at for that editor is borderline unmaintainable...) If you have access to archie, you can run an archie search for pico to find out where the "nearest" site to you is that has a copy. Best of luck! -- Jonathan Crawford Ark Technologies, Inc.