Another list for DOS, Windows and Unix is here: http://www.modest-proposals.com/Twee.htm |
Another list for DOS, Windows and Unix is here: Twee Editors |
The "short.stop" web site does a feature comparison of 9 editors. The top 5 editors are (after compression) all of 4 kilobytes in size.
Another list for DOS, Windows and Unix is here: Twee Editors
The idea here is that there are sometimes needs for very small text editors that can fit onto tiny (which is a subjective term for certain!) media. For example a small text editor to fit on a 170k Commodore C64 floppy!
IBM OS/2 used to have a copy of the E editor on its boot floppies. Linux does the same.
What Tiny Editors do you know of?
People who spend a lot of time using word processors often use TinyEditors when they need to edit configuration files, shell scripts, or email, all of which must be plain ASCII (see Pico). Most Linux distributions include one or more simple GUI editors for this purpose, although they often have JOE, Nano, or Pico as well.
Programmers edit in plain ASCII all day long, and tend to denigrate TinyEditors (see EasyVsPowerful).
The Twee editors included TED, the 3K DOS editor whose assembly source was published in PC Magazine in the '80s. Many people (myself included) wrote extended versions of TED to add missing functionality, such as search.
(When Phillipe Kahn was getting ready to release Turbo Pascal, one question was how the editor should behave. He surveyed his staff about their preferred editors. Everyone listed a different first choice, but everyone listed WordStar as the second choice. Kahn decided that WordStar was the most familiar to the intended market, and used a superset of WordStar key mapping in TurboPascal. -DMcCunney)