New The Hessling Editor (THE) port

[comet--berkeley]

Mark Hessling wrote the THE editor which is a similar to IBM's VM/CMS xedit and similar to Mansfield Software's kedit.

http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/

The editor uses Rexx as it's scripting language and in this case it needs Regina-REXX.

See my previous posting here for the Regina-REXX port:

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=9368

Attached is a port of THE:

2014-09-14 17:42 UTC: changed attachment to latest version p3

[jggimi]

Builds and runs on amd64-current. However, it segfaults if I invoke it with a zero-byte file. e.g.: $ touch test.file; the test.file

I can say it looks familiar but I haven't a clue how to use the editor any longer. I last used xedit in the 1980s.

[comet--berkeley]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Builds and runs on amd64-current. However, it segfaults if I invoke it with a zero-byte file. e.g.: $ touch test.file; the test.file

I can say it looks familiar but I haven't a clue how to use the editor any longer. I last used xedit in the 1980s.

Thanks jggimi! It looks like a bug.

After building nthe without the strip command and then running gdb, I found the offending code in file.c line 762

I created a new patch-file:

--- file.c.orig	Tue Jul  9 17:06:21 2013
+++ file.c	Mon Sep 14 10:07:15 2015
@@ -759,8 +759,9 @@
       if (feof(fp))
       {
          eof_reached = TRUE;
-         for (;*(trec+read_start+chars_read-1)==DOSEOF;chars_read--)
-            ;
+         if (chars_read > 0)
+	    for (;*(trec+read_start+chars_read-1)==DOSEOF;chars_read--)
+       	 	;
       }
       /*
        * For each character remaining from the previous read in an incomplete

I updated the attachment in my original posting to a newer version "p3".

[comet--berkeley]

Originally Posted by jggimi

I can say it looks familiar but I haven't a clue how to use the editor any longer. I last used xedit in the 1980s.

Included in the build is some nice documentation in html:

file:///usr/local/share/THE/html/index.html

There is also a "Quick" reference:

file:///usr/local/share/THE/html/misc/quickref.html

[jggimi]

Yes, but I was building before a first cup of coffee today. I guess I just had to much blood in my caffeine system.