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Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)

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Post by velorek »

I set about coding my own version of the classic MS-DOS EDIT.COM for GNU/Linux systems four years ago and it this is where the project is at... still rough around the edges but works well with Termux! :) Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bneUX_kVA

Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)
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Post by velorek »

Turboblack wrote: post #2

It would be nice to have one like this (full screen) for Windows

Yes, I would like to make a cross-platform editor one day. I would probably choose Pascal's RTL video unit over C for that task. There is one editor called YEDIT that fits the brief for windows systems: http://www.malsmith.net/edit/

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Post by dbrueck »

miohtama wrote: post #4

FYI The classical Borland text user inteface (TUI) framework used in Turbo Pascal and other terminal MS-DOS editors is open source. Turbo Vision: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

The sense of nostalgia this evokes is so strong, thank you for sharing this!

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Post by velorek »

miohtama wrote: post #4

FYI The classical Borland text user inteface (TUI) framework used in Turbo Pascal and other terminal MS-DOS editors is open source. Turbo Vision: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

It's awesome. Free Pascal IDE is based on this I think. It certainly something to aspire to :) thanks for sharing

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Post by fsckboy »

miohtama wrote: post #4

FYI The classical Borland text user inteface (TUI) framework used in Turbo Pascal and other terminal MS-DOS editors is open source. Turbo Vision: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

that's cool! so this is the turbo-* vision part, but the *-pascal part is not included?

is there one of those anybody knows about? I have the source to a turbo pascal BRIDGE.PAS card game player I used to enjoy playing. (it's not a good bridge player and it has a scoring bug, but I know how to fix it, and I can run it in dosbox if I want so I'm not desperate in that sense, but I'd rather run native)

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