On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM Thomas Desi wrote: > > looking for text editor vi (clones) for (Free-)DOS, using the GERMAN language > keyboard/setting. > > I found „Calvin“ ( https://github.com/sylvandb/calvin ) > which instead of German Umlaute shows codes > [..] > > Which vi ( vim ) would work? > > Elvis is too large, needs extention, and vim 72 needs a runtime file and so > on. > I just want the possibly smallest "standalone“ vi (or vi clone) … > ?
I like the VI that comes with the Open Watcom compilers (like Open Watcom C). The docs say that you need a few files to go with it, but doing some quick tests it seems you just need VI.EXE (about 371k) and DOS4GW.EXE. By default, this VI starts up using a menu and other "visual" elements, but you can turn that off. For example, this will skip the config file and effectively put VI into "default VI" mode: VI -d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
