Hi, On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:58 AM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > FWIW, the one I use is also called TED and is an old utility from PC > Magazine. The executable is only about 3 kB > (way smaller than the EDLIN that comes with MS-DOS) and is a VERY basic text > editor with a TUI > (it's not a line-oriented interface like EDLIN so is more intuitive to use). > It gets the job done efficiently for things like > editing CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT.
I used e3-16 (Wordstar keys) since it was super tiny (roughly 3 kb), but it was limited to CR+LF files and max 32 kb, which is imperfect. But for boot disks it was great in a pinch. Besides executable size (and license, ugh), you also have to worry about key bindings. I also like SteVIe (a vi clone), which is quite good in various ways. My normal favorite TDE also has a real-mode version, but I probably wouldn't prefer that (nor even an older version) for floppies. You really don't want a 160 kb editor on a floppy (unless you copy it to a RAM disk). _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
