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When you mentioned retro I was expecting something like editline. Now I feel old. Anyways, the TUI on mainstream MS-DOS 6.22 and Borland from those days were i
by nunobrito 2y ago
When you mentioned retro I was expecting something like editline. Now I feel old.
Anyways, the TUI on mainstream MS-DOS 6.22 and Borland from those days were incomparable to anything on mainstream Linux even on these days. For some reason Linux is the king of text mode and yet never had a proper TUI tradition.
Thank you for sharing the project. Compiled well on my side, looking forward to the next developments. My (unrequested) feedback:
+ consider renaming from C-edit (uppercase) to lower case c-edit, because it is simpler to type from the terminal.
+ the animations of the spining part on top was distracting
+ some menus missing to implement functionality, didn't test copy&paste
+ mouse support would be nice, albeit optional but would complete the MS-DOS 6.22 / borland style since it supported mouse there too
Thank you.
- velorek 2y agoGlad it compiled! Most of your suggestions are on my to-do list indeed. I wanted to maintain an animation to demonstrate that it could be kept running throughout all the different dialogs and listboxes. I'll probably end up changing it. Thank you for testing it. :)
- rbanffy 2y agoI have to say that when I saw retro I expected ncurses support. Not all retro terminals understand VT100 escape sequences ;-) What about those who use VT-52 terminals?
- hnlmorg 2y agoUnless you’re using an actual hardware VT52, then it’s pretty safe to assume VT100 support these days.
- rbanffy 2y agoI concede most physical terminals still alive will have some form of VT100 emulation (up to VT500-level, usually), but half the fun is to make something that can actually run on ancient hardware.
- nunobrito 2y agoMakes good sense. Keep up the good work!