from Tony Butka:
I agree. Although it's not freeware, I've been using Greenview Data's Vedit Plus
editor
for years, under DOS, OS/2, and Windows. I believe that they are working on a Linux
version as well. Anyhow, it handles huge files -- personally the largest I've run have
been only 4/5 Megabytes (offload from a server), but it works like a charm, and
integrates with compilers as well. Small footprint, rock solid, extensible macro
language.
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How does Vedit Plus compare with EPM? I used EPM with OS/2 from 2.0 to 4, until
OS/2 Warp 4 bombed out, and left the second hard disk data FUBAR. I don't want
to go through the buggy install again from scratch, and face Ultimail Lite and
IBM Web Explorer again, though I could download Fixpack 15 (23 MB, 2 hours?)
from Hobbes ahead of time if I really wanted to. I would be doing the download
under DR-DOS 7.03.
Emacs is not just a text editor, but can do mail and news, ange-ftp, and there
is Emacs W3 Web browser. I don't know which if any of these work in the DOS
port. DOS, with FAT file system, is least efficient among OSes for using disk
space on large partitions. So I'd have to say Emacs is not really meant for
DOS. DJGPP and related programs also take a bundle of disk space. DJGPP +
Emacs DOS port take well over half the space on a Zip 250.
