Hi, On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros <fav...@mpcnet.com.br> wrote: > > Editors fascinate me. Below are some of my favorites. And, yes, > I do *edit* fairly large files, up to 15 MB. > > - Aurora by Jeff Wunderlich. A masterpiece.
I've heard good things but not tried it. I guess even I had my limits. ;-) I think rr loves this one. No editor can do it all, but some just click better than others for various reasons. As much as I dislike stupid ones like Notepad, even I have to agree that they are simple enough to use and good enough for simple things. You don't really need to learn the full ex / vi command set just to edit a simple file. > - FED by Marko Macek. I think you meant FTE. (I think some partial bit of it was based upon TDE. It definitely has some advantages.) Japheth once implied that he liked this one. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fte/files/fte/fte-20110708/ http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/ > - TED by Thomson-Davis, Jason Hood I think you meant TDE. He still hasn't finished up 5.2 beta, but I still love this one. (Yes, it lacks a few modern "must have" features, but I don't miss them enough to switch. Then again, I'm not very modern, I'm no quiche eater, heh.) > - Editor built into the NDN file manager I know this (well, DN) had influenced the FASMD (IDE) editor in various ways because Tomasz was so comfortable with that one. http://flatassembler.net/download.php > - SET by Salvador Tropea Still seems updated, surprisingly (now at 5.7), but his interest seems to only be *nix these days. I haven't seen him make a peep (or proper DJGPP release) in many many years. Eric Auer is always praising this one. (This was more or less the TVision-based editor underneath the now-defunct RHIDE.) http://sourceforge.net/projects/setedit/ > Back to the original topic "New standard FreeDOS text editor", I > assume this means a simple or medium-power editor. In that case, > there's just one item I'd like to add to previous wish lists: > syntax highlighting for comments. I can live without colorized > keywords, strings, digits, punctuation -- but comments are a > special case. Having them in a different color is a huge > improvement in terms of visual comfort. It's not as easy as it sounds: line comment: --, //, #, \ multi-line comment: /* */, { }, --[[ --]] nested comments: (* *), /* */ And you have to take into account char ('k') and string literals ("hello"), plus any line continuation marks ('\'), digraphs ('%:'), trigraphs ('??/'), etc. P.S. I'm surprised nobody else mentioned TPE (TurboPower editor, 3.4). It's an oldie but goodie (freeware) that some (e.g. ML1 guy) preferred for various reasons.: http://www.simtel.net/product/view/id/51220 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
