Text editor

[Rick Smith]

Greetings,

Is there a good command line text editor for os2? Like nano etc?

Regards

Rick

[Dave Yeo]

Personally, I use File Commander for things like a cmd line text editor, file manager etc. Shareware but no nags etc, http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html

[Mo]

There are OS2 Versions for VI (https://ecsoft2.org/vi-improved-vim) and Emacs (https://ecsoft2.org/emacs) but also others on Hobbes (https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2Fapps%2Feditors) or ECSoft2 (https://ecsoft2.org/applications-editors-and-viewers)

[Sergey Posokhov]

FTE:
https://ecsoft2.org/efte2-text-editor-fte-text-editor

[Rick Smith]

Personally, I use File Commander for things like a cmd line text editor, file manager etc. Shareware but no nags etc, http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html

Thank you, this is just like midnight commander which I am familiar.....!

Regards,

Rick

[Mo]

Thank you, this is just like midnight commander which I am familiar.....!

Regards,

Rick

midnight commander is available at hobbes: https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?dir=%2F&stype=all&sort=type_name&search=midnight+commander
Never used it, so i cannot say anything about it.

[Tom]

midnight commander is available at hobbes: https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?dir=%2F&stype=all&sort=type_name&search=midnight+commander
Never used it, so i cannot say anything about it.

That version at Hobbes is version 4.5.6r2 from august 1999, built using EMX 0.9c .
According to https://midnight-commander.org/ the most recent version is version 4.8.28 from march 2022 , but no OS/2 version is listed there.

[Dave Yeo]

IIRC, Midnight Commander has X11 dependencies and some other shortcomings, for sure no large file support. Whereas File Commander is a native OS/2 program that has been ported to Windows and Linux so fits into OS/2 well, things like clipboard support which IIRC was lacking in MC.

[Eugene Tucker]

I too have found the File commander app to be indispensable too and have used it since I started with OS/2 2.0 back in the 90's for a lot of editing.

[jailbird]

I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!

[Tom]

I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!

And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that

[Dave Yeo]

I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!

And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that

Looks like it still has OS/2 support, Open Watcom and GCC, both EMX and kLIBC, EMX required for X11 support.
Have to test it, https://github.com/mbert/elvis/blob/master/osos2/Makefile.os2

[jailbird]

I finally got a newer version of the old vi clone Elvis ( https://github.com/mbert/elvis ) working!

And now inquiring minds will surely like to know how you accomplished that

Looks like it still has OS/2 support, Open Watcom and GCC, both EMX and kLIBC, EMX required for X11 support.
Have to test it, https://github.com/mbert/elvis/blob/master/osos2/Makefile.os2

Yep! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I had to do a lot of source hacking. I meant "wow, I actually managed to get enough RPMs installed to make it compile!" .

The only thing elvis doesn't seem to do that vim probably does is automatically detect DOS-style line endings (CR+LF) and switch to the proper mode. It allows you to do it manually or via config file. I'm going to see if I can add auto-detection for existing files, it should be fairly simple.

[Andreas Schnellbacher]

But why limit to a VIO editor? Several editors for PM exist.

About VIO: FTE is really fast, even in its PM mode.