There used to be a C editor called RHIDE for DOS that ran under a GNU port to DOS. It is a Turbo C++ clone, and there is a Linux port. It's been a long time since I've used it, but it's probably worth a look. http://www.rhide.com/ Tom On 0, Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > I am looking for a text editor that meets my personal prejudices! > > First may I say that I hope this doesn't turn into another vi v. emacs > war!!! I have an approximately equal loathing for both of them. When I > am forced to use the "standard tools" I prefer to use ed. (No, really, I > do.) > > I want the editor primarily for programming, and I have done a lot of > programming in environments like Borland Turbo C for DOS and the HTDC C > compiler for PIC microcontrollers, also for DOS. > > These editors provide, AT THE SAME TIME, Wordstar-like control-key > commands AND alt-key-activated pulldown menus like those provided in > DOS's EDIT. There is, of course, some duplication of functionality here. > Personally I find it convenient. > > I have pored through the text editors provided on my Debian CD and can't > find anything that bears more than the vaguest resemblance to this > model, although it seems that it may be possible to customise most of > them, with a lot of pain and grief. jed seems the least painful so far. > > I think it would be a lot easier to install something that already works > the way I want it to, so that I can get on with writing number-crunching > software. The important features are: > > - TEXT BASED (and compatible with SVGATextMode) > - Accepts Wordstar-style commands, and > - AT THE SAME TIME has DOS-EDIT-style pulldown menus > - Ability to call one's own shellscripts by adding entries to the > pulldown menus > > Does it exist? > > Oh, and to any university people etc. reading this: have you anything I > can download (a set of course notes perhaps?) about programming > numerical solutions to differential equations, esp. wrt. thermodynamic > simulation? > > Thanks, > Pigeon > > > -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never be irreplacable: If you are irreplacable then you are unpromotable. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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