Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [minor style issue] filenames and C++ reserved words in header files | Date | 25 Mar 1996 06:53:34 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960323161157.3185A-100000@panasync.canuck.ca> By author: Colten Edwards <edwards@panasync.canuck.ca> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Speaking of editors, has anyone tried the fte editor? It's a text mode > editor but requires a small patch to the console driver. It supports > color syntax highlighting for c, c++, html and alot of others. It looks > almost like a old borland interface, but better. And you don't have to > devote 30megs of HD space to an editor. > www page is at http://ixtas.fer.uni-lj.si/~markom/fte > > It probably won't work on anything other than the console after looking > at the patch but I could be mistaken. I've enclosed the patch file for > others to have a look at. It might make other console only programs more > responsive if they are re-written to use the features in the patch. > The patch itself will almost patch cleanly into version 1.3.77 even > though it's actually meant for 1.2 I think. >
This patch seems pretty darn useless to me; it is replicating functionality from the standard driver as well as /dev/vcsa with little or no additional functionality. This stuff can be done without kernel bloat pretty easily. There might be something to be said for having a BIOS style keyboard mode, though, if only to make it easier for people to port stuff from DOS, any maybe to help out the DOSemu guys.
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