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First post, by Niezgodka

Posted on 2017-09-19, 00:57

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I'm looking for a replacement editor for Dos Navigator (text mode, standard cut, copy paste key comminations). I checked few websites, and there are plenty of them. I don't know which one is good, freeware and not to complicated 😒

Also, are there any good word processors in graphics mode? Some book writing software, for multiple chapters?
I appreciate any suggestions.

Reply 1 of 4, by BloodyCactus

Posted on 2017-09-19, 01:53

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In DOS I use for basic text editing QEdit (TSE Jr) or programming I use TSE Pro (Qedit big brother).

for graphic word processing in dos.. you can use Word Perfect 6.2 in graphic mode.

obviously if you go windows you have a plethora of word processing stuff.

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Reply 2 of 4, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-09-19, 13:20

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Wordstar, WordPerfect, MS Word 5.5

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Reply 3 of 4, by gca

Posted on 2017-09-19, 18:12

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For basic text editing I fall back to my UNIX roots and use a DOS version of vi/vim.

For word processing, I would go for WordPerfect.

Reply 4 of 4, by Niezgodka

Posted on 2017-09-21, 02:31

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wow, thanx for all those suggestions. I discovered PEDIT as a small and pretty powerfull dos text mode editor. Works great.
I wish there would be some book writing program, with Chapters sidebar, to work on multiple parts of the book. I will keep looking!

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