DOS ain't dead

Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS (Users)

posted by bocke, 17.05.2025, 22:20

I don't know if it fits your requirements, but I like SSH ED:

"Simple Borland/WordStar-like texteditor. This is the editor I use for programming etc. The program is only 17 kb, and thus loads fast. Written totally in assembly."

https://shh.thathost.com/pub-dos/

It's on all my startup disks. :)

For serious work (as if I do anything seriously on DOS anymore :D), I use Vim. But that's a behemot. To big for DOS. I have uploaded older versions on Internet Archive, but if you need syntax highlighting, that's only supported from version 5.x. The last DOS version is 7.2. 7.3 could be compiled but it was very buggy on DOS.

https://www.vim.org/

Complete thread:

• Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - jejump, 19.04.2022, 22:41 (Users)
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - mceric, 20.04.2022, 09:24
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - RayeR, 20.04.2022, 11:46
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Oso2k, 21.04.2022, 01:17
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bretjohn, 21.04.2022, 20:13
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Zyzzle, 22.04.2022, 02:31
      • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - jadoxa, 22.04.2022, 16:50
        • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 23.04.2022, 13:53
      • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bretjohn, 22.04.2022, 18:59
        • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Zyzzle, 23.04.2022, 01:38
          • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Guti, 23.04.2022, 09:05
          • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 04.05.2025, 16:10
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 23.04.2022, 14:48
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - iw2evk, 23.04.2022, 14:54
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - SuperIlu, 24.04.2022, 17:22
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - jejump, 25.04.2022, 01:28
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 25.04.2022, 08:13
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - Oso2k, 06.05.2025, 10:15
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - roytam, 14.05.2025, 04:09
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bretjohn, 17.05.2025, 02:42
      • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - mceric, 17.05.2025, 12:29
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bocke, 17.05.2025, 22:20
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bocke, 17.05.2025, 22:21
    • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - rr, 18.05.2025, 17:10
      • SHH ED free software - ecm, 23.05.2025, 14:42
        • SHH ED free software - bocke, 25.05.2025, 09:39
      • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bocke, 25.05.2025, 09:43
  • Looking for Windows Notepad equivalent for DOS - bocke, 18.05.2025, 03:01