HP puts (put?) out a product named "HPEDIT" (HPEDIT.PUB.SYS) that from
what I'm told is the general public version of Voodoo. I never used the
original so I have no idea if that is a true statement or not. I've seen
it in use before but since Qedit was also available to me at the time, I
opted to use it instead. Qedit still manages to awe me with some of the
things it can do, even in this "GUI" day and age.
Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Santucci [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 8:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] That Voodoo That You Do (was: Re: Windows Based Editor)
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> Anyway, VooDoo is cryptic, powerful, and dangerous. I like it. I think that it
> is the ancestor of HP/Edit, and *may* be a sort of a port of Emacs ....
You surely don't mean Edit/3000. What is HP/Edit? I can't believe for a
minute that Voodoo is/was in any way, shape or form, related to
Edit/3000 (EDITOR.PUB.SYS). Voodoo had a visual mode better than Quad
and very close (I think -- that dang'd memory again) to Robelle's QEdit.
You are right about Voodoo being cryptic and powerful, though. You could
write your own macros to replace words, characters, flip-flop text, etc.
It would match parens, braces and brackets on the fly, actually jumping
back to the first half of the pair for a moment when you typed the
closing half, so you could verify you were closing the right set of
brackets. There was also an extensive search feature including all kinds
of regular expressions.
Does anyone know if Voodoo is still available and/or how to get it? I'd
love to have it again, but didn't know it had been ported from the
classic machines. Are you really still using it, Bob?
Patrick
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Kirke-Van Orsdel, Inc.
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