DOS-like text editors

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:00:51PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
   > "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> writes:
   > 
   > > Nonetheless, I think both these apps deserve a look!
   > 
   > I'm not sure what "DOS-like" means, but the primative editor I
   > remember from DOS days was rather like "ed" or maybe "ex" which
   > are probably installed by default on your OS.
   > 
   > If you're looking for a good, small (i.e., no Emacs or VIM) editor,
   > I recommend "jed" which emulates those two and others reasonably
   > well.
   > 
   > I tried one on FreeBSD ("e3" ?) which emulated those two and a few
   > others and was less than 10000 bytes, statically compiled.  Amazing.
   > 
   > There's also an "easy editor" ("ee") which is relatively popular,
   > for such things.
   > 
I would also suggest ne. For people from DOS, it is not Norton Editor,
but Nice Editor. Wonderful editor, very small and blazingly fast. A
bonus is there is also a column mode to copy vertical blocks of
text/numbers.

Regards,

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