Editing Moreorless (section)

= About moreorless =

moreorless is a text viewer and editor for the Foenix F256K and F256 Jr. modern
retro computers. It was written by Martin Grap (@mgr42 on the Foenix Discord
server) in 2024. Its source code and prebuilt binaries can be found on my 
[https://github.com/rmsk2/moreorless GitHub] page. Its current version in 2.4.0.

moreorless allows to view and edit files which are much larger than the 64K
base memory of the Foenix machines, because it dynamically manages all of the
RAM of the computers. The largest file I have successfully loaded had a size of
286KB. But be aware that in order to edit files of that size a RAM expansion is
needed. On an unexpanded machine the largest file I have tested had a size
of 124KB.

Apart from writing text files like this one, moreorless also offers some
features for the BASIC programmer: If you refrain from using goto and gosub you
can create SuperBASIC programs without using the screen editor. moreorless
allows you to write your programs without line numbers and adds these either
when you save the program or when you write the program to RAM from where it
can be loaded by xload or run by xgo.

moreorless can either be used in 80x60 or in 80x30 characters text mode and it
provides four different colour schemes which in addition to the usual Foenix
white on blue aim to emulate monochrome monitors of the 80's and 90's, i.e.
green on black, white on black and amber on black. For good measure there is
also a black on white mode.

moreorless began as a simple text viewer and developed into an editor later.
The name moreorless has its roots in that time. I also hope that it turned out
to be a more or less usable editor.

This document (in its original form) has been created using moreorless.