The Captain_Blackbeard test editor actually has a couple of nifty ideas realized.
Ex.g. the company delivered the editor with helper programs: - a little program that generates a help file and a manual of the editor based on the key bindings you have chosen yourself. So those helpers are always corresponding to the real bindings. - another super small »one task« program generates a neat list of my project directory contents. Writing a multi-chapter text, this comes in very handy for commenting my text-files. my use of this: -> I find the 8.3 format of the file naming convention kind of difficult to name my files. Besides haveing my »system« to this, creating a text-file which lists acutal files and make comments there is a nice workaround to a larger writing project. Actually even better for me then using »comment« or »tag« functions like in the MacOs! (Easy print out and read it on paper, using colored pencils, yeah!) - the line drawing capacities inside the editor. (Obsolete today…?) Uses the extended ASCII semigraphic Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters in a clever way. - chose the width of your cursor shape directly in the program’s options and more… great stuff and many brilliant ideas which work. Looking at new text editors: Are we constantly re-inventing the wheel? Even the rather more recent »multi-cursor« feature was partly realized already in the 80ies (select a colum block would print any character you hit in all those lines!) Looking at a tablet and speaking of »distraction-free": Who possible can WORK texts with such a gimmick? > On 29.01.2024, at 19:55, Jim Hall via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> >> and let’s mention »Captain Blackbeard« editor. Also great! >> > > That's an editor I hadn't heard of (there were a million text editors > in the DOS era) so I looked it up: > http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Captain_Blackbeard > > Very interesting programmer's editor. > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
