Does there exist a modern editor for C as comfy as the borland C DOS editors?I guess I'm just looking for VIM but with menus and compiler output built in, and simple enough that everything just werks
>>108544034>as comfy as the borland C DOS editorsMeds.
Notepad++VSCode
>>108544034:colorscheme blue
:colorscheme blue
try CRiSP
>>108544034Not sure about the compiler stuff, but Fresh is the best modern terminal editor I ever used.Linux devs are allergic to menus and reasonable shortcuts/controls/user interfaces in general, so this one's a breath of fresh (hehe) air. It runs on Windows and Linux too. It has LSP support as well, but I haven't tried that.
tmux panes and gnu-screens within those or nano if thats your thing
>>108544034>compiler output built inIt's got that.>simple enough that everything just werksIt's got that, too.>menusYou're SOL.
>>108544127This is basically exactly what I was looking for thanks, I will check it out
You can get all that in nvim, but it requires dealing with the retarded plugin ecosystem.
>>108544165he can use gvim
>>108544034Free Pascal comes with a TUI IDE similar to the original Turbo Pascal IDE.
>>108544034>\n{Anyone who does this should be shot twice in the back of the skull.
>>108544306The fuck are you talking about
>>108544034I've always liked Bisqwit's editor: https://youtu.be/ZMBQmhO8KqI
>>108544293Is gvim any good?
>>108544034That bright blue shit is hell on the eyes.I don't get how you can stare at that for hours on end.
>>108544300Kind of crazy how much effort those people put into to preserving a world that pretty much no longer exists. You've got to respect it.
>>108544366Eh. I think it's more interesting on Windows than Linux. There's a button for :make at the top of the window but you have to set that up and most people don't bother AFAIK.
>>108544034Watcom-C comes with an editor like this, runs on Linux, and has a lot of the VIM motions/commands.I've never ever seen a single person use it or talk about it but it gets installed with the compiler if you build it from source.
FAR + gvim
>>108544034>Does there exist a modern editor for C as comfy as the borland C DOS editors?djgppit's dos 32 bit real mode compiler based on gcc + an ide
>>108544519btw recommend some C highlighting .vim, mine kinda sux.
>>108544083It's not about the color.It's about the whole minimalist experience. Just one file open. Minimal noise feedback. Fullscreen. Simple bitmap font. Etc. There's also the fact that code from that era was significantly "simpler" than now. All you really needed was the compiler with bundled standard libraries for the platform. It just worked.>>108544072You can configure those editors for a similart experience, but it is not quite there the same thing. Even Linux without a DE using GNU Nano and miminal build-tools installed for gcc/g++ isn't quite there, but it's the closest.t. I'm not a boomer, but for some reason my college, which despite being one of the most prestigious in the US and rich as fuck, still had a couple classes that used ancient DOS machines with borland software back in 2007~2008 and I loved those classes.
>>108544596>There's also the fact that code from that era was significantly "simpler" than now. All you really needed was the compiler with bundled standard libraries for the platform. It just worked.Yeah, I remember QBasic, I'd just open the manuals right from within it to look up the things and make some dumb games. Simpler times.
>>108544034in college I used notepad++ set up to look like that and with compiler shortcuts. But I never did anything complicated with it.
>>108544034far manager/far2l
>>108544685There were entire pieces of commercial software written this way.Damn. We get paid more now but are we really fairly compensated?
>>108545509>get paid moreinflation underestimated
>>108544685A 286 PC with EGA graphics was the last mainstream computing platform a layman could expect to fully understand down to the hardware level and to keep that understanding in his head for the rest of his life. What C is to languages, an IBM PC AT with DOS 3.3 is to computing in general. It's TempleOS if it was actually used by millions of people to do real work. You had books telling lawyers and middle managers to whip out DEBUG.COM and type in assembly just so they could make their WordPerfect- and-Lotus machines a bit more productive, and many did just that. Simpler, manlier, and far more popular than UNIX (an OS for quiche eaters if there ever was one)
>>108544034I'm more of a Watcom guy myself.
>>108544034Vim in one tmux pane, terminal in the other
>>108544366I use it. Desert colorscheme, bumping the default font size a point or two (I'm old), the ability to set default window position/size, and the fact that it's usable from the command line (opens in under a second) makes it my default now. The vim syntax highlighting is literally never wrong even in the hairiest shitshow without any gay language servers.
jed in wordstar emulation modejoe
>>108544596I started coding with GNU nano.It is the experience you are looking for.>b-but i REALLY just REALLLY need EXACTLY borland on DOSthen use borland on DOShttps://github.com/johangardhage/dos-bcdemos
>>108546694nano doesn't integrate the compiler output
>>108544127NTA It's pretty neat, but it kinda kills it for me whenever I see Claude in almost every commit. It also seems like it's only been around for half a year. I guess time will tell if this is a passionate autism project or program sloppa. I do like that they have Dracula theme built in and Emacs keybindings. Plus syntax for a lot of meme langs I like, like Zig and Odin. Makes it hard for me to hate. Ram usage is very low, Rust but uses Quick.js to allow for web dev shitters to write TypeScript plugins. The subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. No build in org mode support though...
