Been thinking about:
https://codeberg.org/vidak/peoples
Which is the little text editor that I want to ship with the first model of the people's permacomputer.
Compose mode has the guts of it done.
I wanted to move onto the edit mode and fill that out a bit, because it would allow debugging of further features live inside the editor.
BASIC may be approached with the concepts of the REPL, I found myself writing little test programs of about 5 or so lines in order to figure out ANSI escape sequences.
The edit mode should be pretty exciting.
The main change I think I will be making is switching from MID$() to INSTR() for the search function.
If it turns out that the original VIC-20 code works better with MID$, I'll go with that.
So far, the code sparks joy. I have been thinking about it a lot, but trying to only approach it when I have inspiration.
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