Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 10/06/2024 13:12, David Brown wrote:

On 10/06/2024 13:31, Malcolm McLean wrote:
 

My shell can mount a FileSystem.xml file as a filing system and use that as backing store. No other shell can do that. That's why I need a shell. Because a shell is effectively an editor for a filing system.
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 If this is an essential feature for the shell you want to use, and it is worth the effort writing it and all the limitations your shell has compared to existing shells, fair enough.
 Perhaps I am missing something, but I have yet to see a point in your "FileSystem.xml" in the first place, never mind a point in being able to treat it as a mounted filesystem where you can edit files directly. What does your shell give that a user could not do by unpacking the FileSystem.xml to a directory tree, working with the files using whatever tools they want, then packing them up again to a new version of the FileSystem.xml file?
 

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Well that's a way of doing it. But it's pretty inconvenient. The shell lets you edit a FileSystem, XML file in place. Then of course I've got to test bbx_filesystem.c very rigorously because it must work, it's the heart of BabyXFS. So by writing the shell, I flush out any problems with it.
And of course now the fun part of the project comes in. I add MiniBasic to the shell, so you can run basic programs from it.
And gives the users example code to show them how to use the system.
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