On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:05 AM tom ehlert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Danilo, > > Sorry, but I think you're too snippy here. > > > First of all, if the idea of an 80x25 single file editor frightens > > you, you're either a wimp or too young to have done any programming > > when that was the norm. > > my first 'editor' were punched cards. > > next came a single line editor (TECO on a PDP10), roughly comparable > to EDLIN. that was a HUGE improvement. I would never go back to > punched cards. > > > next came a full screen 25*80 editor; first VI on UNIX, with HJKL > cursor movement commands. that was a HUGE improvement. I would never go > back to > EDLIN. > > now it's two 28 inch monitors, with google search, RBIL, editor, > program output and debugger all living nicely side by side. > that was a HUGE improvement. I would never go back to > single screen 25x80. FOR DEVELOPEMENT! > [..] > I write code in FreeDOS and for FreeDOS, like when I recorded the "How to program in C" video series. I use the FED editor, which is probably my favorite programming editor under FreeDOS. The code syntax highlighting is a nice feature. But 80x25 is a very small "window" for effective coding. So I usually do not code on FreeDOS. I use a full screen editor on my Linux desktop system, and transfer the files to FreeDOS. This was a lot easier when I used DOSEmu to run FreeDOS - DOSEmu booted from a directory in your Linux home, so you could edit a file on Linux and it would appear immediately in your running DOSEmu session. But since DOSEmu hasn't been updated in a while (haven't checked DOSEmu2 lately) I do it another way with QEMU.
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