Found my favorite DOS editor

For those of you who wrote your own editors. How did you display special ASCII characters? Years ago, In highschool I tried writing a hex editor (in qbasic so this may have been the problem) but when display anything that had a function like chr 07 it would activate instead of display. I gave up since I couldn't figure it out other than writing directly to video memory. On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 8:13 PM Van Snyder via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 15:49 -0700, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: >> Since EMACS has a full programming language (elisp), you can write >> anything you want in it (mail readers, browsers, calendar apps, other >> editors, etc) > > Years ago, one of my colleagues showed me a pocket reference card > jesting about "hello world." > > At the end of the description of "GNU hello" was a remark "and like any > self-respecting program, it has a built-in mail reader."