26 Mar
2007
26 Mar
'07
3:28 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
I spent the weekend obsessing over what the fastest
editor I could
find for a 4.77MHz 8088, DOS, CGA platform. The results, if anyone is
interested, are here: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/texteditors
No doubt I will get some scorn for knocking Brief and other venerable
editors, but the truth is I have very specific needs: 1. Instant
screen response to user input, and 2. a functional undo. That's it,
really, and I was surprised how many text editors did not fit the bill.
Well,
I'm surprised you haven't just rolled your own ;) Simple editors
are not very difficult to write, I'm sure you can find various
libraries/routines to do most of the grunt work for you and you could be
the first person in 15 years to roll a new DOS text editor :)
On a more serious note, have you checked out the Borland Editor
Toolbox? IIRC it let you roll an editor similar in features to their
Pascal 3.0 environment (which was a decent editor for it's time, though
I think you lost your undo buffer after a save, or was that the early
versions of Brief). You could customize as needed.
George