DOS-like text editors

[Liam Proven]

On 5/16/06, Gary W. Swearingen <garys at opusnet.com> 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.

That must have been a *long* time ago!

By DOS-like, I mean resembling MS-DOS Editor, which came in with
MS-DOS 6.0 in about 1991. I think you're thinking of EDLIN which was
late 1970s/early 1980s code.

MS Editor is a proper Common User Access editor with pull-down menus,
resizable windows, online help, modeless selection & Windows-like
cut/copy/paste. That's the sort of thing I'm after.

> 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 it. It's not particularly easy to use or intuitive by
DOS/Windows/Mac standards.

> I tried one on FreeBSD ("e3" ?) which emulated those two and a few
> others and was less than 10000 bytes, statically compiled.  Amazing.

Tried it, too.

> There's also an "easy editor" ("ee") which is relatively popular,
> for such things.

That's a new one on me, I confess.

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