Re: [Freedos-devel] Svardos Editor

On 5/7/2025 12:31 PM, Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel wrote: MS DOS Edit wasn't standard until MS DOS 5.0.  We had to live with edlin before then. :D FreeDOS strives to be a MS-DOS 6.0 clone, so including it in addition/instead of (sorry Gregory 😉 ) EDLIN would make sense. However, it does n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Svardos Editor

MS DOS Edit wasn't standard until MS DOS 5.0. We had to live with edlin before then. :D On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Am 07.05.2025 um 18:30 schrieb Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel < > freedos-devel@lists.so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Svardos Editor

> Am 07.05.2025 um 18:30 schrieb Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel > : > > Knowing that I am oso2k on BTTR, I'd go further & say that sved should become > the default editor. I think it is worth providing it as a package, as it is a) very usable on really slow machines and b) it can handl

Re: [Freedos-devel] Svardos Editor

Knowing that I am oso2k on BTTR, I'd go further & say that sved should become the default editor. It's like FED in its featherweight and features, but doesn't require a 386 (djgpp) or MS VisualC to compile. SVED uses Open Watcom 1.9 (and UPX) and is compiled with the 80

Re: [Freedos-devel] Svardos Editor

A point to think about: On 07/05/2025 13:26, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote: Who is really going to be editing multi-gigabyte text files in DOS? Could you imagine making a minor change and saving such a massive file? The sort of editor that can edit a >1GB text file in DOS is potentiall

Re: [Freedos-devel] Svardos Editor

> On May 6, 2025, at 8:10 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > wrote: > >  > Hi! Should we add SVED to our distro? :-) Why? My question has nothing to do with how good or bad SVED may be. What worthwhile function does it provide that is not present in the roughly 20 editors we already have?