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> I could not binary-patch Borland C++ to perfectly cooperate with screens that have other width than 80 characters. So I was cornered and had no choice but to
by mkl 2y ago
> I could not binary-patch Borland C++ to perfectly cooperate with screens that have other width than 80 characters. So I was cornered and had no choice but to make my own editor. I could no longer remember how to use Turbo Vision, and I couldn’t bother to study, so I wrote the editor entirely from scratch.
That reasoning doesn't make much sense. I think he just wanted to write an editor (which is fine). I'm pretty sure I used DJGPP's RHIDE with 132 columns, and doing Turbo Vision stuff following the excellent documentation is pretty simple.
- bananaboy 2y agoYeah I think MultiEdit supported wider text resolutions as well. There’s also setedit http://setedit.sourceforge.net/ http://setedit.sourceforge.net/
- ChrisClark 2y agoI loved RHIDE, thanks for reminding me of it.
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- livrem 2y agoText-mode editor for FreePascal probably works fine in bigger text-modes as well and still looks a lot like traditional programming editors. Or for just a good DOS-compatible code editor, if looks were not so important, he could have just used vim or emacs.