Hi Robert, >>> But there are many good (and free) >>> text editors available for DOS that can edit large text. >> >> True enough. and people have had time enough (it's 2022) to select one
> Not everbody is with DOS since the 1980s. There are still DOS newbies > around from time to time. welcome. just remember that we had even the holy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war how would we be able to indoctrinate newbies into one single editor religion? I think even newbies should be given the chance to select from https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-edit.html and multiple other sources to change their own religion? disclaimer: I'm probably no expert in DOS editors (anymore). over the last 20 years of my freedos engagement I haven't used an editor on my dos instances more then 20 times (quick editing autoexec/config ). everything else is edited on a multifile, multiwindow, multiscreen AND multigigabyte machine and copied to the machine. takes <1s with a virtual machine and <10 s with a physical floppy. of course, if as a hobby you want to have a feel for 1980 XT developement pain you should use edlin. ok, nobody used edlin ever. but professional editors could be pricey... but still nobody used edlin. ever. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
