On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net> wrote: > > My $0.02 - I totally agree with Denis here, that it's too late to create > new shiny editors for DOS.
That reply got sent by accident partially composed. I don't think it's too late. I just can't see anyone bothering. There are already a plethora of editors for DOS, and likely one that will meet your needs. The issue is that most are not open source and cannot be distributed *with* FreeDOS. But no matter what you do, you won't get *one* that will meet everyone's needs. > After a few decennies, people got used to > what they had, and they probably won't be willing to learn how to use a > new editor. That's why any editor that appears should try to to get > close to whatever people are using nowadays. No DOS editor will be close. The defacto standard is probably Windows Notepad. The default editor shipped with FreeDOS is a reasonable compromise. It resembles the editor MS provided with MS-DOS, and a menu driven interface. The OP wants something more powerful as the default. Save for a built-in BASIC interpreter, that largely already exists in RHIDE, but that uses DJGPP and requires a 386 CPU. If you insist on 8066 compatibility, you may be SOL. I'm actually more interested in what editors people *do* use under FreeDOS, and why they use them than I am in some hypothetical new product. > Mateusz ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
