Found my favorite DOS editor

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 15:06, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs at gmail.com> wrote: True and fair. I personally have no use for language plugins and so on -- I only need text editors for plain-text files, not program code. The thing is that I want and like small, fast, simple editors that start very quickly and just do text and nothing else. 90% of the time I don't want colour-coding or syntax highlighting or any of that. I just want something that loads too fast to see and has the standard UI with CUA menus and so on so I can do what I have to do and get out, ASAP. Which is where a lot of widely-admired editors fall down. Atom, VSCode etc are vast lumbering things. Anything written in Javascript made into a standalone app inevitably becomes Howl's Moving Castle, to echo Steve Yegge's observation: ? Scheme is an exotic sports car. Fast. Manual transmission. No radio. Emacs Lisp is a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD: "the car that's always in front of you." Common Lisp is Howl's Moving Castle. ? TextWrangler was much smaller than BBEdit so it won for me. Once it wasn't an option, well, BBEdit lost out. I found a tiny thing called "TextEd". It's like macOS Text Edit but much smaller and faster because it doesn't support formatting or RTF or anything. I can post a link later; I'm on a different machine right now. Vi, Joe, Nano, Pico etc also fail this, because of their weird UIs and because they're shell-based and frankly if I'm in a GUI I want a GUI app. Tilde is my preferred console Linux editor now, but sadly, it doesn't work with things like the Git commit command -- no template is inserted. So I have my default set to mcedit, which is still a bit weird but at least only a bit. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053