Marc André Tanner said: > Editor Frontends > ================ > > The editor core is written in a library like fashion which should make > it possible to write multiple frontends with possibly different user > interfaces/paradigms. > > At the moment there exists a barely functional, non-modal nano/sandy > like interface which was used during early testing. The default interface > is a vim clone called vis. > > The frontend to run is selected based on the executable name.
While I am probably too late to the party, I would suggest to separate your "vis" into two distinct parts on the same principle as vi and ex: the should be an ex-like CLI editor accepting commands from stdin and printing output to stdout, and there should be separate UI that wraps ex-like CLI, sending commands and parsing output. Such split would make possible to have static build of ex-like CLI on embedded device and controling it with local interface over SSH/telnet. P.S.: there is already a program called "vis" – replacement for "cat -v" as suggested by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan.[1] Probably another name could be chosen. I like "vie" option, although "svi" also appears to be available (according to OpenBSD ports at least). [1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
