Hi Mateusz, On 18 Mar 2022, at 21:03, Mateusz Viste via Svardos-users wrote: > Hello Carsten, > > On 18/03/2022 20:29, Carsten Strotmann via Svardos-users wrote: >> I need *some* motivation when writing code, and that is usually doing something that I haven't done before. > > Note that if you're looking for a more ambitious thing, there's also this one about a minimalist EDIT program: > > https://osdn.net/projects/svardos/ticket/43668 > > This would help decrease the amount of SvarDOS floppies. But writing an editor (even simple) is not a trivial task. Just saying :) > maybe there is no need to write a new text editor from scratch. In the 1990ies I've worked on MicroEmacs (uemacs, mostly on OS/2). uemacs compiles to DOS (without extender), and it is C-Code. I could adapt it, e.g. in addition to the emacs keybindings have keybindings more common with recent editors and localisation. An other option would be the "wt" editor (WordTurbo) from the FAST language distribution. That is a very nice editor in around 40K, I've used a modified version for several years writing FAST code. "wt" is not written in C (in FAST, which is a high-level assembler with C-like syntax). "wt" is GPLv3 now and I would be able to adapt it for SvarDOS (keybindings and localisation). Greetings Carsten
