Currently SvarDOS uses FreeDOS EDIT as its system editor. This editor has two problems: it's quite big, taking precious space on installation diskettes, and it cannot be translated. And it's quite slow on 8086 PCs.
This is about replacing it with something that is:
- TINY (a dozen of KiBs or so)
- relatively simple: no need for advanced text editing features, just enough to comfortably edit small (<64K) configuration files
- 8086-compatible and have modest memory requirements
- multi-lang (for example via svarlang.lib if C)
- capable of (limited) copy/pasting between two files
The FreeDOS EDIT editor would, of course, remain available as third-party editor in SvarDOS' repository (along with many other editors).
mateuszviste
Currently SvarDOS uses FreeDOS EDIT as its system editor. This editor has two problems: it's quite big, taking precious space on installation diskettes, and it cannot be translated. And it's quite slow on 8086 PCs.
This is about replacing it with something that is:
The FreeDOS EDIT editor would, of course, remain available as third-party editor in SvarDOS' repository (along with many other editors).