Text Memo (41CX only)

[MichaelHarwood]

This uses the text editor functions of the HP-41CX.

You can create a text file and then use the functions to store and retrieve messages and notes. It works fairly well, well enough to merit its use - before the age of cell phones. I don't remember the details of the editor commands, but they're in the manual.

(1) Create a text file. Put the name of the file in the Alpha register "NOTES" and the size in the X-register (e.g 60). CRFLAS
(2) If it is not done correctly, delete it using the PURFL command, and try again.

(3) Code. Assign this to a user key.

Code:

01 LBL "MEMO
02 CF 27
03 "NOTES
04 AON
05 ED
06 AOFF
07 END

[Garth Wilson]

I'm still hoping Angel will give us a much better text editor than the one provided by HP.

[Ángel Martin]

(04-02-2024 10:35 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  I'm still hoping Angel will give us a much better text editor than the one provided by HP.

Garth, did you check out the ED+ function in the WARP Module?
It's not as good as, say an HP-71 implementation, but it addresses the special chars support pretty well.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-8775.html

The manual is here. Se pages 21-24

Cheers,
Ángel

[Garth Wilson]

Thank you.  Doing "XEQ ED+" does work, but I didn't know it was there because it's not in my older WarpCore manual which I printed out so I could write my notes and put my markers in it.  It will be nice to have the additional characters.  HP's version still lacks anything related to block copy/move/delete, and search, pretty basic text-editor functions.  I have a cx from 1986 which has served me well for these 37+ years.  Although I hope it will continue for decades more (especially now with the MAXX module coming), I might also get a SwissMicros one for the dramatically improved speed (quite relevant in this context of the text editor), although I'll still have to use the HP when I want HP-IL.