DOS ain't dead

Aurora vs. others (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.05.2008, 11:34

> On *nix and Windows(Cygwin), I use joe.

It's nice, and the newer versions have UTF-8 support (I think) as well as syntax highlighting. Too bad DOS only has old versions (old 16-bit 2.x port and a 32-bit 1.x DJGPP v1 version). However, if you want easy to use (a la CUA), JASSPA MicroEmacs or JED or TDE or FTE or FED or SETEDIT all have that (and some of those support Wordstar also).

> VI(M) is something meant for people that like pain and whips.

VILE is much smaller, multi-win, block select, configurable/scriptable, DPMI (i.e. can use tons of memory), and has nice docs (although not nearly as extensive as VIM, but you don't need it). It's actually based (internally, historically) upon MicroEmacs! Of course, the DOS version doesn't have syntax highlighting (last I checked) for whatever reason. There's also an OS/2 port of NVI which has excellent vi reference docs, but I have yet to get it working in pure DOS (assuming that's even possible). And still more vi clones exist (mostly 16-bit: steVIe, Elvis, XVI, Calvin, etc).

They say that Emacs is hard on the hand but vi is hard on the brain. IMO, as long as you have online help (or self-documenting), it's moot. Vi tends to be lighter (usually single buffer, single window) and Emacs tends to be multi-buffer, multi-win, self-documenting, fully customizable. You'll almost always find some (static) vi pre-installed on various *nixes. Still, I tend to stick with TDE for most tasks. But I definitely admire the alternatives.

P.S. I know you (marcov) already knew that vi was a full-screen visual improvement to ex, which was an improved ed (regex line editing, whee!).

Complete thread:

• Registering Aurora text editor - rr, 26.05.2008, 15:01 (Announce)
  • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 27.05.2008, 03:42
    • Aurora vs. others - rr, 27.05.2008, 09:43
      • Aurora vs. others - marcov, 28.05.2008, 10:15
        • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 28.05.2008, 11:34
          • Aurora vs. others - marcov, 28.05.2008, 13:20
            • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 02:06
              • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 04.06.2008, 03:02
                • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 04.06.2008, 03:29
                  • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 00:43
                    • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 06.06.2008, 01:07
                      • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 03:15
                        • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 06.06.2008, 05:58
                    • INFOPAD & Kinesics - rr, 06.06.2008, 09:44