crossposted from irc
Back in the early 2000s I met some guy who had once sold a copy of edit.exe to some store as if it were some software he had written for managing orders and inventory. The folks at the store used windows, but they would open up edit.exe and it looked just like the stuff that the larger store chains used to manage their own orders… The guy just made a sample file and instructed them how to input data in a specific format that made it all look like a table, but it was just a text file with no validation of any kind.
Still, a template can be immensely useful
i edit all my html in an actual physical notebook like a civilised person
wish i could find my old notepads full of BASIC and HTML lol
as a matter of fact many of my batch and basic thingies were made on the margins of my history notebooks
Ed Is The Standard Text Editor
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ed master race
ed is the standard editor
Viitor and emacsitor aren’t even words
I use emacs with evil, best of both worlds
Doom Emacs gang😎
Helix!
edlin was my favorite for a long time 🙂
Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS,[1] MS-DOS and OS/2.[2] Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continues to be included in the 32-bit versions of current Microsoft operating systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
edit: link and explanation of syntax used if anyone is interested. the w (write) and q (quit) commands made it somewhat similar to VI(M). https://www.computerhope.com/edlin.htm
why did i never see it on my 32bit winxp then
Were you using Windows XP Home, by any chance?
That tool was only included with Windows XP Professional, and even then, it was a command-line utility—so unless you were specifically looking for it or browsing through the %windir%\system32 directory, you probably wouldn’t have noticed it.
The article I referenced didn’t specify exactly which 32-bit versions it came with or when it was removed—it just mentioned that it was still included in 32-bit Windows after the DOS era. I didn’t write the article myself, so I can’t really speak to its accuracy.
Personally, I used that edline a lot back in the DOS days starting around 1985, until I switched to Notepad in Windows 95 and later to VIM when I moved to Linux after Windows 98. I never really checked for it in newer versions of Windows after that. A quick Google search confirmed it wasn’t included in XP Home, which would explain why you never saw it.
Link to the forum I found this information about XP in: http://murc.ws/forum/hardware/general-hardware-software/49698-omg-edlin-still-lives-in-xp#post755768
(edit: fixed a typo, added reference link)
OHHHHH THAT EXPLAINS IT
yes im a home user
Finally someone mentions edlin! Real programmers don’t need to see more than a single line at a time.
that is absolutely true and also 640Kb RAM should be enough for everyone 😂
all the hours and countless reboots spent optimizing config.sys and autoexec.bat to achieve 50kb more of available memory… good memories 🙂
i just moved my files off to an external drive whenever my hdd got full haha
i didnt really trust my coding skills enough to come close to config.sys…
I remember using Notepad for a long time for coding in Windows. Then I was introduced to UltraEdit. It was cool, but expensive. Jumped onto NotePad++ and I’ve been enjoying it lots.
I do also use IDEs, usually Codium based.
Micro ftw!
(I also use Geany, Featherpad, Vim, ee(1), and JOE)
micro ftw
I keep finding new features. Tabs. Hsplit. Plugins. Authentication prompt at save time if it detects that the user you ran it under doesn’t have permission to write to that file.
And of course keybinds that make a dang lick of sense.
I use KDE Kate for my coding. Scripting more accurately to some users, but I don’t find a meaningful distinction.
NeoVim with NVchad stomps both
Then add tmux with terminal or tiling trminal and i3 amd you have the ultimate spacecraft
text editor
