Maybe my aptitude for this has increased somewhat?

I spent some time looking through these BASIC text editors, it seems possible to get them all working, now that I seem to have a better idea about what I am doing.

EDITYPE, for instance, parses the files through character by character, using GET.

@akkartik I think what unlocked it was going through the example tutorials supplied with the Tiny BASIC flavour that the permacomputer project is using.

I am also planning long term to getting into the guts of uxn's Sunflower BASIC so it can do OPEN, CLOSE, PRINT, and INPUT statements with respect to file operations.

There is a lot of documentation to do. I am thinking of rewriting the README.