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Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS (Users)

posted by jejump, 19.04.2022, 22:41

Hi everyone,


Over the years of generating code for various platforms (8051 asm, Microchip asm, lots of other micro-controllers), I've grown quite at home generating my source code using just plain 'ole Windows Notepad.exe. I've tried using other text editors for Windows and just end up getting frustrated because things don't flow the way my brain is trained to do things--namely shortcut keys, and as with the case of Notepad++, text formatting doesn't space tabs in the same way as Notepad, but that's a whole other issue.

My real issue is that I need Notepad for DOS and if there is a DOS equal to Notepad in terms of text selection, and all keyboard shortcuts, it's the FreeDOS EDIT.EXE program. It seems to mimic Notepad in every way EXCEPT it has a cap on the size of the file being edited. Right now, I'm trying to edit a PowerBASIC .BAS file that's around 330KB. FD Edit.exe wants no part of it! Can anyone recommend a DOS text editor that:

-Supports large files
-Highlights selected text using SHIFT+Arrow Keys
-Highlighted disappears when arrow key is pressed w/o SHIFT
-CNTRL+C Copies
-CNTRL+V Pastes
-CNTRL+X Cuts
-CNTRL+F Searches

I've downloaded PEDIT and IE and use IE mostly. That's as close as I've come to getting what I'd like to have. I've downloaded and discarded about 8 others. PowerBASIC 3.5 compiler has a pretty disappointing editor too, BTW.

Thanks for all of the help forthcoming!

John

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