Version 35 of viTHE

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viTHE is my attempt to combine the aspects I like best about the vi editor and THE (the Hessling editor).

Ultimately I am hoping it will include modes for vi key bindings as well as THE key bindings. I would also like to have a mixed compatability mode that will allow vi movement with THE style prefix commands and THE style command line evaluation.

It it should be extensible via Tcl in an easy fashion. (It will use Tcl as its macro language vs the REXX that THE uses)

I am expecting this project to take me a while before it is useful to anyone besides me (if ever). I am mostly doing it because I want it and it has turned out to be fun beyond my imagining.

I intend ultimately to have both a Tk version and a character mode version (using Ck). If anyone can give me advice on what it takes to get Ck compiled on Win32 and what changes are required to PDcurses [L1 ] to get it to work with Ck I would appreciate it.

I will provide source code on request and a starkit once some reasonable level of usefulness is achieved.

Tess is my current working name for the editor (from Tcl and Hessling)

Current Status:

Tess is now capable of being used for general text editing at a basic level (new)
keybindings are not implemented yet.
commandline is working -- commands are protected by their own namespace (new)
some basic THE style commands are implemented (also a number of (temporary?) ad hoc non-standard commands)
arbitrary Tcl code can be evaluated from the commandline
a file ring has been implemented allowing editing of multiple files without forcing saves
basic interactive directory navigation has been implemented see A minimally extended minimal editor for example (new)
tabstop highlighting is now possible (new)
integration with tclvfs allows browsing/viewing virtual filesystems (barely tested) (new)

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