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A really small DOS text editor.

• Tiny editor

Intro ∞

I regularly use this as the rule to measure other editors by.

Released by Ziff-Davis way back when, in a magazine somewhere. I downloaded it from somewhere or other.. I actually went so far to hunt down its sister versions.

Ted3 is a really really small (12k uncompressed) text editor. It is godlike, and even now I’ll use it for most textfile-editing work under DOS / DOSEMU (See also DOSBox-wrapped text editor). While it can be compressed down to 7k, for a program that size it’s amazingly functional. Even now there are few such programs which challenge it.

2005-08-18 – 3.0 ∞

• Default to — SET TED=30MN1770C0FFFF
• Don’t mess up the keyboard repeat rate when exiting
• Add in word wrap
• Add in handling of > 64k files (Just load up an ~ 64k chunk of the file at a time!)
• Be able to change the number of spaces a tab converts to.

• If ted3 is run within Windows, and I cause it to beep.. and windows support for the PC speaker has been removed.. it will hang.

  • “Windows” is probably a reference to Windows 3.1

4DOS helper – ted3.bat ∞

(4DOS)

https://github.com/spiralofhope/dos-random/tree/master/dead/4DOS/scripts/ted3.btm