Hi John, err… you might be right about this. I will have a look at it, too.
I don’t actually care so much about keybindings, because I »program« them into my Tipro 128 PS/2 keyboard (»128« means 128 keys available to program whatever I want…!), so I have custom made keycaps labelled the commands, press it and done. No querky pinky, no RSI, no fatigue or mental load on this, and AS FAST AS HELL. I am also not so fond of the Emacs-Style double commands (e.g. ^KX or alike), I prefer the VIM single letter commands, but then there you have the mode-thing, which drove me nuts lately and I switched to EMACS on Mac, WIN and LINUX (Raspberry3 Raspian) because… see above. BTW: Protext is a nice product, too! And! »Boček« can save in UTF-8!! (It pretends to be the only DOS Editor to be able to save into UTF, which is VERY interesting to me.! Still active in development seemingly!) You are hitting the nail: It’s really annoying to me that in the moment I found a program (or an operating system ;) which makes me think: »This is it!«, the itches turn up. Those little bits which make me think, its not worth to »change« to another system or program. Your response on VDE just arrived in time when I was thinking to sum up my »FreeDos« experience from a complete NON-tech user perspective who always despised (MS-)Dos as ridiulous, like Steve Jobs thought us in his short comercial when he tries to open a spread sheet in does and makes fun of MS-Dos in 1992 (!) You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMX_FuOLoCI I will do this »resumée", maybe I can contribute somethinkg to the FreeDos project from a perspective of a person who just wants to be productive with FreeDos in Text composing/editing. Fullstop. Regards, Thomas > On Sun,20210418- week15, at 14:46, JR <h...@iafrica.com> wrote: > > Hi Thomas > I have had a quick look at VDE. It is very nice in that it supports PCL > printers directly. Correct me if I am wrong but it appears that key bindings > cannot be changed. Sprint and MicroStar both allow customisation of key > bindings. On the Windows front I use TextPad as an editor. It also allows key > bindings to be changed. Boxer is another fine Editor but only supports a > single character after key modifier(Ctrl/ Alt). Eg. Ctrl K is valid but Ctrl > K X is not supported. > Regards > John > > On 2021/04/15 15:47, Thomas Desi wrote: >> I am sure you found this anyway: https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home >> -Th. >> >>> Am 15.04.2021 um 15:44 schrieb JR <h...@iafrica.com>: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2021/04/15 15:39, Thomas Desi wrote: >>>> John, >>>> VDE is nice, and it comes with „vinst.com“ which lets you customise the >>>> whole editor to the users needs/liking/workflow >>> Thanks, I will be taking a close look. >>>> I am looking forward to try the Sprint Program! >>>> >>>> Note: I am looking for an easy converted ASCII <-> UTF8. >>>> Have you any knowledge of such a beast? >>> Unfortunately not. >>>> Regards, Thanks again for offering in case a copy, >>> Shout if needed and I will upload to Box and send you a link. >>>> Thomas >>> PS. What part of the world are you in. I am in Cape Town, South Africa. >>> >>>>> Am 15.04.2021 um 15:34 schrieb JR <h...@iafrica.com>: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Thomas >>>>> I have only ever used version 1.01. It was distributed on nearly a dozen >>>>> 5" floppy disks and 3 printed manuals, User's Guide, Advanced User's >>>>> Guide and Reference Guide. It has a few quirks but is very stable >>>>> compared to many modern WP's. It also has a scripting language but I'm >>>>> not wild about it. You are welcome to a copy if it isn't already >>>>> available on the web. >>>>> I have just looked up VDE and will investigate, thanks. I tried one of >>>>> the later DOS versions of WordStar which had a Wysiwyg preview option >>>>> which could help with page breaks before printing. I didn't like it and >>>>> stayed with Sprint. Also looked at Brief and other popular WP's (can't >>>>> remember their names) at the time before I chose Sprint. >>>>> Regards >>>>> John >>>>> >>>>> On 2021/04/15 14:59, Thomas Desi wrote: >>>>>> Hi John, >>>>>> thanks for your experience account and software list. >>>>>> I am intrigued - as »collecting« word processors/text editors in the >>>>>> "quest for the best« - I managed to find >>>>>> the following. >>>>>> (https://winworldpc.com/download/c3806cc3-a010-c2a4-0911-c3a6e280947e) >>>>>> >>>>>> What version woud you advice or are you using? There is a significant >>>>>> difference in size between v.1.00 and 1.01 as you can see… >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks for your opinion on this. (I am currently working with VDE) >>>>>> regards, Thomas >>>>>> Borland Sprint 1.00 (5.25-360k) 1.00 English 1.38MB >>>>>> 1 >>>>>> Borland Sprint 1.01 (3.5-720k) 1.01 English 1.52MB 1 >>>>>> Borland Sprint 1.x Manuals 1.x English 48.9MB 1 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu,20210415- week15, at 13:59, JR <h...@iafrica.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> SP - Sprint - Borland's Word Processor - Produce Postscript files which >>>>>>> are converted to PDF's. Used for all documentation, letters and >>>>>>> quotations. > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
