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Off topic but my favorite editor of all time was the DOS edit.

It was simple and straightforward with keys that made sense.

I've been a joe[0] user on Linux for nearly 30 years because it has similar keybindings to EDIT.COM (which they both owe, I believe, to Wordstar).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor

Wordstar has very different keys to EDIT.COM, which was basically a tiny program to launch QBASIC.EXE with the /EDIT (or /EDITOR) parameter that disabled the BASIC bits. QBASIC's keys are the same as those used in Windows.

Micro is just about is good, with a CUA interface, though is lacking the menu and dialogs.

Also, freedos has a similar editor that has a few new features.

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