could you publish a test version with the actual status?
Thx
Willi
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Am 07.05.25, 21:01 schrieb "Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
I have made some changes to the FreeDOS EDIT source. EDIT 0.9a contains quite many bugs, which I find astonishing considering it is the default editor since a few decades.
Things I have done so far:
- fix IVT memory corruption resulting from a null ptr write when creating a new document
- fix "replace all" not replacing all occurrences (but only from the current cursor position)
- fix mouse cursor flickering
- fix wrong drive being initially selected (always A:) in the file open / save dialog
- fix bug which prevents the user from navigating beyond the last character of a line via right arrow key (for example in the search dialog with previously entered text, or when the last line of a document did not end with a newline character)
- make search "wrap around" at end of the document if search is not started from the beginning (did previously only search from current cursor position to end of document).
- remove the border and title bar around of the "main window", as this only wastes space. The new layout looks like [1].
To investigate:
- People report high CPU usage
Issues probably never fixed:
- EDIT has a huge binary size considering its limited text editing capabilities
- it is incapable of editing files >65000 bytes
- could be faster on slow machines
- it cannot create documents without the last line being terminated by a newline char (not sure that is an issue, but one person complained on the sourceforge bug tracker)
- I am sure I will find more...
To remove some of these issues, a SIGNIFICANT amount of time has to be invested. So I wonder if it would be better to actively search for a replacement. Other option is to live with its current state...
[1]: https://github.com/boeckmann/edit/issues/1#issuecomment-2849246567
Bernd
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