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

posted by bocke, 01.06.2013, 12:39

> As this kind of display can be appropriate with old 14" CRT, on today's
> screen (19" or more), it would be better to display more text...
> Is there a solution for this ? Some kind of text editor that would display
> in graphic mode (for example 1024*768), with several fonts and size ?
>

There is no standard API for that kind of thing in DOS. You can switch VGA text modes, but there is no a high-res framebuffer like in Linux. But as Rugxulo noted there are some editors using graphical VGA+ modes. But don't expect N++ features.

> In other words, is there some kind of "notepad++" for Dos ?
I tend to use Vim on every platform. In native DOS it works fine, but it seems too slow in emulators (ie DOSEmu). Especially more recent 7.x versions. So an older version or Elvis (another vi clone) usually do the thing.

But of course, there are a bunch of free (and/or libre) editors you can choose from.

As Vim is a bit bloaty on DOS, I would recommend an older version for non-fans (5.5+ has syntax highlighting, 6.3 might be better choice).

Other editors I find usefull are for example: fed, fte, jed, tde... Aurora is a nice "formerly shareware" editor. OpenWatcom includes a pretty nice vi-like editor.

For editors without syntax-highlighting.. There are bunch of them. I tend to use only the lightest like PC-Mag ted variants (actually ted2 derivatives as it has support for Unix line endings) or an old vi clone called Calvin. Vim also has a pure 16-bit version. It's nice, but without fancy features of 32-bit version. An older version might have more options.

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