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text editor recommendations
Name: D. Spoon Date: December 19, 2002 at 12:19:35 Pacific OS: MS-DOS 5.0 CPU/Ram: 486 33MHz / 20MB RAM
Comment:
I am soliciting text editor recommendations. I am currently using notGNU 1.93, but it has the annoying habit of autosaving the buffer every two seconds. I prefer something of the public domain or freeware variety to use to write code and long ASCII rants. Please help. Thanks in advance.
Name: Roy Date: December 19, 2002 at 12:44:54 Pacific
Reply:
Check out the freeware editor at this site:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
This is a really nice editor written by a guy from Korea. It is customizable for many different programming languages or just as a text editor. A free download with support on Yahoo. However this editor does require Windows, not a DOS program.
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: December 19, 2002 at 13:48:20 Pacific
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Well, I like using DOS Edit from Win9x. It's self contained (unlike the 6.22 version), allows control characters (such as escape) and has a second window feature. Shouldn't be hard to find ;)
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Response Number 3
Name: Wengier Date: December 19, 2002 at 18:57:14 Pacific
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Yes,EDIT from MS-DOS 7.x(Win9x) can edit binary files too.
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Response Number 4
Name: k_semler Date: December 19, 2002 at 23:20:18 Pacific
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I prefer WinVi. it is very similar to Vi on a *NIX system, with the exception of no character mapping. You can get it here.
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Response Number 5
Name: fred6008 Date: December 20, 2002 at 18:36:10 Pacific
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I like EDIT, but that thing you said about rants is a problem. You can't print from it on most printers, and what you put in the Windows buffer to paste often comes out with strange characters included.
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