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Which text editor do you use for dos programming? (Developers)

posted by georgpotthast Homepage, Germany, 15.05.2013, 13:09

Hi Rugxulo,

let me comment on your severe condemnation of FlWriter:

> Georg's FLWriter 1.2 tried to be some kind of graphical word processor.
> Unfortunately, for me at least, it seemed to crash a lot (esp. open file
> dialog). It had some fonts and such things like bold, underline, etc. It
> more or less preferred XHTML but could partially convert between a few
> others (RTF, PS).
>

I only release software that does not crash here. I also have not heard from users of FlWriter that it does crash. However, I believe that you observe the crashes you mention, but maybe you could test it a bit further and report: "it works fine as long as I do not load the xyz driver.";-)

> Georg's FLWriter 1.2 tried to be some kind of graphical word processor.
After working on it for many months I consider it more than a try. If you work on such an application alone and not as a large team you cannot provide all the features of LibreOffice etc.

> For word processing, dunno, it's too complicated. Most people would suggest
> using a modern OS with a modern suite of tools (e.g. LibreOffice, Abiword,
> Ted, Lyx, Texmacs).

If you want to do word processing using the DOS operating system I think FlWriter is an application that can be used for that. Laaca wrote below:"probably best is FlWriter".

FlWriter is not intended and I think not very useful for developing programs though.

I came accross an application similar to DEV-CPP which I could port to DOS: FlDEV However, this will be quite a lot of work. Also, DJGPP requires long file name support as far as I am aware. After you load DOSLFN compiling seems to take a much, much longer time compared to a Windows XP DOS box.

Georg

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