Smalltalk-80 text editor referenceThis is a discussion on Smalltalk-80 text editor reference within the Smalltalk forums in Programming Languages category; A Google search for the (unquoted) terms "history of the text editor Sam" turned up many excellent hits. What don't they tell you? I used to work in computer graphics during the 80's. My recollection suggests the Blit work was less inspired by than contemporaneous with the Smalltalk development path. "Everybody" was working on the same issues during the 70's. :-) -- Richard Sargent 5x5 Computing Solutions, Inc. rsargent@5x5.on.ca http://www.pendragonfarm.com/ <plus852 @ gmail.com> wrote in message news:3702b0bd-fd4c-498a-bd8a-b85f87c47974 @ i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... I am interested in the history of the text editor Sam, which features a mouse language derived in part from the ... | ||||||||
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08-27-2008, 09:03 PM
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 Re: Smalltalk-80 text editor reference A Google search for the (unquoted) terms "history of the text editor Sam" turned up many excellent hits. What don't they tell you? I used to work in computer graphics during the 80's. My recollection suggests the Blit work was less inspired by than contemporaneous with the Smalltalk development path. "Everybody" was working on the same issues during the 70's. :-) -- Richard Sargent 5x5 Computing Solutions, Inc. rsargent@5x5.on.ca http://www.pendragonfarm.com/ <plus852@gmail.com> wrote in message news:3702b0bd-fd4c-498a-bd8a-b85f87c47974@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... I am interested in the history of the text editor Sam, which features a mouse language derived in part from the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 environment, thus I am looking for more information on that environment (rather than any of the dozen modern smalltalks). On Aug 21, 9:16 am, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > >>>>> "plus852" == plus852 <plus...@gmail.com> writes: > > plus852> What is the best reference for how text editing works in a > plus852> Smalltalk-80 environment? > > Now that you've gone down one sorta-dead-end, can we reexamine the > question? > > Why are you specifically interested in the "Smalltalk-80 environment", > instead of any of the dozen modern smalltalks? > > In particular, look at Squeak (www.squeak.org), which owes its heritage to > the > original Smalltalk-80, and is readily available under a liberal license. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 > 0095 > <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > Seehttp://methodsandmessages.vox.com/for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion  |
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08-30-2008, 02:21 PM
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| Re: Smalltalk-80 text editor reference On Aug 27, 8:03*pm, "Richard Sargent" <rsarg...@5x5.on.ca> wrote: > A Google search for the (unquoted) terms "history of the text editor Sam" > turned up many excellent hits. What don't they tell you? > > I used to work in computer graphics during the 80's. My recollection > suggests the Blit work was less inspired by than contemporaneous with the > Smalltalk development path. "Everybody" was working on the same issues > during the 70's. :-) > > -- > Richard Sargent > 5x5 Computing Solutions, Inc. > rsarg...@5x5.on.cahttp://www.pendragonfarm.com/ > > <plus...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:3702b0bd-fd4c-498a-bd8a-b85f87c47974@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > I am interested in the history of the text editor Sam, which features > a mouse language derived in part from the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 > environment, thus I am looking for more information on that > environment (rather than any of the dozen modern smalltalks). > > On Aug 21, 9:16 am, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > > >>>>> "plus852" == plus852 <plus...@gmail.com> writes: > > > plus852> What is the best reference for how text editing works in a > > plus852> Smalltalk-80 environment? > > > Now that you've gone down one sorta-dead-end, can we reexamine the > > question? > > > Why are you specifically interested in the "Smalltalk-80 environment", > > instead of any of the dozen modern smalltalks? > > > In particular, look at Squeak (www.squeak.org), which owes its heritageto > > the > > original Smalltalk-80, and is readily available under a liberal license.. > > > -- > > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 > > 0095 > > <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > > Seehttp://methodsandmessages.vox.com/forSmalltalk and Seaside discussion The sam documentation does not explain all of the keyboard commands available or exactly how they function (e.g., through trial I discovered that ^W will cut selected text and non-cut delete the preceding word). I was hoping for some documentation of the smalltalk-80 environment that might explain these things. |
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08-30-2008, 05:51 PM
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| Re: Smalltalk-80 text editor reference plus852@gmail.com wrote: > The sam documentation does not explain all of the keyboard commands > available or exactly how they function (e.g., through trial I > discovered that ^W will cut selected text and non-cut delete the > preceding word). I was hoping for some documentation of the > smalltalk-80 environment that might explain these things. Have you seen the book "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment"? By Adele Goldberg, 1984 - ISBN 0-201-11372-4. It documents contol-W on page 62. -Bill |
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