BSDC works well on the Altair, but not so the available editors. I have always written code on my Mac or Linux box, then transferred it to the 8085 to compile, but I want to be able to write/compile/run natively. CP/M ED is/was the most unintuitive program ever written IMO, although it has the advantage of working. Nevada edit and Wordmaster also work 'out of the box' but the keybindings passing through Mac/Linux to Minicom to Emulated VT102 are obtuse, to say the least. Shift/Ctl/^[ plus hold your coffee with only two fingers is not all that productive just to move up a page.
I noticed that an editor called RED comes with BSDC and is now supposedly tailored for the compiler suite. The documentation for configuration is straight forward and builds a config file that compiles. But, when linking RED6.C it fails with the message MAIN() not found, and yep, it is missing. I would think that something got dropped when setting up the download at BDSOFT.COM, except that the page has been up for years. I can't be the only person who has hit this problem.
Anybody using the RED editor on the 8080? Or, got a favorite editor that you like?
Ken