This is fantastic news (that it's really a modern version of XyWrite)!
I am doing the same thing with Eudora--having Claude make a functionally equivalent program using
Python as the underlying engine.
Using Claude (and I only last night moved up to Claude Code) is both quick and slow. Getting code
for a feature from Claude is a matter of a minute or less. Making that Code actually perform is
another two hours. Claude Code should shorten than because it doesn't require as much stupid
participation from me ("Paste back in here the results of running that in Terminal").
--Harry
On Wed, 20 May 2026 16:19:02 -0400, Carl Distefano wrote:
> Reply to note from harrybinswanger <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 19 May 2026
11:06:11 -0400
>
> > QuickNOTES, however, underplays the power.
>
> True, Harry. So does PyWrite, or XyWrite for that matter, for anyone not in the know. But
what's in a name? as someone said.
>
> > Will it be able to run U2, too ... ?
>
> Yes, indeed. See Chapter 9 of the manual. QuickNotes features "user libraries" --
files with the `.qnu` extension -- which are collections of QPL routines that can be launched from
the CMline with Enter or F9. You can even load multiple user libraries, additively (see command
`ADDLIB`). I'm gradually building what I hope will eventually be `xywwweb.qnu`, but that's very much
a work-in-progress.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
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