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

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 10.05.2013, 20:08

The possibility of using more than 80 columns depends on your videocard. Most videocards support text videomode 132x43 or 132x50.
Advanced test editors can set and use this resolution. I personaly prefer SetEdit which can do it.
If your card does not know 132x43(50) mode it still after some hacking should be able to display 90x28(34,50) mode. It is not standard mode but after some tweaking it is possible. With some trick SetEdit can set and use this resolution too but it is not so easy. You could try Necromancers DOS navigator (NDN) which has (besides powerful filemanager) also built-in nice text editor. NDN can set and use many tweaked videomodes like 90x28(34,50)

Another interresting possibility is to use some external utility which tweaks your videocard even more. But in this solution you have to use only such editor which does not try to set some own mode but accepts some mode already set.
Try this utility http://laaca.sweb.cz/stm.rar
It partialy depends on your specific videochip - sometimes it can do a lot, sometimes not so much.

So far I wrote only about text editors for textmode.
There are however few DOS text editors working in graphics mode. I don't remember their names from head but probably best is FlWriter by Georg Potthast.

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Damien, 08.05.2013, 09:55 (Developers)
  • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - ron, 08.05.2013, 13:57
    • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Damien, 10.05.2013, 11:46
  • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 08.05.2013, 15:49
    • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Damien, 10.05.2013, 11:54
      • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Laaca, 10.05.2013, 20:08
        • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - RayeR, 14.05.2013, 16:27
          • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - tom, 14.05.2013, 17:27
            • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - RayeR, 15.05.2013, 00:09
              • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 00:56
            • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - RayeR, 28.05.2013, 19:32
    • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - georgpotthast, 15.05.2013, 13:09
      • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 17:40
        • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - georgpotthast, 15.05.2013, 18:37
          • Flwriter 1.2 works great - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 21:31
            • Flwriter 1.2 works great - georgpotthast, 15.05.2013, 21:57
      • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 21:50
        • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - georgpotthast, 15.05.2013, 22:30
          • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 22:51
            • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - georgpotthast, 16.05.2013, 19:05
  • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - DOS386, 23.05.2013, 11:26
  • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - bocke, 01.06.2013, 12:39
    • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 11.08.2013, 04:48
      • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - DOS386, 11.08.2013, 13:47
        • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Brian_extended, 21.10.2013, 20:19
          • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Rugxulo, 28.10.2013, 17:57
            • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Brian_extended, 28.10.2013, 22:56
            • Which text editor do you use for dos programming? - Arjay, 02.11.2013, 16:10