Hi. I got all four copies of this email that you crossposted to the FreeDOS lists. Please don't spam.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Евгений Нежданов <copperm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, dear FreeDOS community members! I please answer all to my questions: > 1. You want to have in the FreeDOS distribute more powerful text editor as > standard text editor? > 2. These editor must be only 8086 or can be 80386 (8086 machines used only > by nostalgy value by museum staffs)? > 3. Editor must be written on the Pascal or BASIC language? I convinced that > the C language is does not work properly with the strings. From the FreeDOS Manifesto, please use C or ASM for programs that replicate MS-DOS functionality. <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=FreeDOS_Manifesto> > 4. Editor must be have: > 4.1. Calculator; > 4.2. ASCII table; > 4.3. Inbuild cyrillic font; > 4.4. Support to external fonts; > 4.5. Support the copy/paste; > 4.6. Support the block selection; > 4.7. Support the line selection; > 4.8. Support the paragraph formatting; > 4.9. Support the change case of the selected text; > 4.10. Have a inbuild BASIC language interpretter; > 4.11. Calendar. I don't see why a simple text editor needs to have a calculator, ASCII table, BASIC interpreter, or calendar. Start with a user-focused design, and ask "What does the user need?" There's a reason that EDIT in MS-DOS 5 was so simple - it made it easy for people to edit files, without having to know a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. Programmers often use a different editor for specific programming tasks (for example, I often use Emacs to write code) but a simple text editor suitable for "average" users with "typical" knowledge doesn't need the "extras" that you list here. Loadable fonts are a nice idea, if that means people from different backgrounds will be able to use the editor more easily. But I encourage you to make it easy to switch languages. If it's difficult to switch languages, few people will use it. Text selection (by line, or by region) and cut/copy/paste are necessities. By "block" do you mean text rectangle, such as starting a selection at line 3 column 10, ending at line 5 column 20? I think rectangle selection is not necessary for a simple text editor. > 5. Editor must be work in the graphics or text mode? I believe text mode. Although if you use loadable fonts, it effectively will be running in the FB in graphical mode, but it should look and act like a text mode program. > 6. Editor in what license type: > 6.1. GNU GPL v2; > 6.2. GNU GPL v3; > 6.3. Apache license; > 6.4. BSD license; > 6.5. EULA. I prefer Free Software or Open Source Software licenses, and certainly for the programs in the "Base" list we prefer GNU GPL. Pick a free license that you happen to like, something that guarantees the source code will remain available to all. Since you give a list, I assume you don't have a strong preference, and I would suggest GNU GPL. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
