I would very much vote against replacing FreeDOS edit. I agree it is bloated and not very well programmed, but instead of throwing it out, we should make an effort to de-bloat and stream-line it. FreeDOS was created as as replacement/continuation of the original DOS, and as such we should keep to that and not fall into the trap that Linux ran into. It was created as a Unix alternative and tries to be the better Windows these days with not very good results.
Anyone not happy with it can still use an alternative - I use VIM for anything but initial changes to the config files right after installing. So we shouldn't tinker with everything just because we can. And as you say SvarDOS edit is very small, so anyone with half a brain can chuck that on his fresh installation with little to no effort after a fresh install. No need to make such fundamental changes because of it. On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 19:25, Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I'm going to make a potentially controversial proposal. I think we need to > replace FreeDOS Edit (until it is improved) with SvarDOS Edit (sved). > > It works extremely well on 8088s (my Homebrew 8088 XT clone) and a slow 386 > 16MHz (Dell 316SX). In contrast FreeDOS Edit is almost unusable on a V40 > (V20/8088 clone in the HB8088) and just usable on the 386 Dell. > > It's also a very small 6KB on disk and can edit files bigger than 64KB on a > machine with at least 256KB free. > > http://svardos.org/sved/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
