SVED

the SvarDOS text editor

The SvarDOS editor (SVED) is designed for basic editing of configuration files and such. It is NOT meant to be a full-featured text editor. On the pro side, it has a low memory footprint and is only a couple kilobytes big, which makes it a good fit for bootdisks or systems with extremely limited resources.

runs comfortably on a 8086-class PC with 256 KiB of RAM
auto-detects color and monochrome video modes
supports unusual text modes like 80x43, 80x50, 132x60, 40x25...
multilingual UI
only 6 KiB of disk footprint
screen estate dedicated to text (no stupid frames, menus and such)
loads files larger than 64 KiB
no line length limit
can load up to 10 files simultaneously
COPY/CUT/PASTE between files
handles CR/LF and LF line endings and can convert between them

DOWNLOAD

sved-2024.1.zip	10 KiB
sved-2024.1 (sources).zip	144 KiB
sved-2024.0.zip	10 KiB
sved-2024.0 (sources).zip	84 KiB
sved-2023.5.zip	10 KiB
sved-2023.5 (sources).zip	84 KiB
sved-2023.4.zip	11 KiB
sved-2023.4 (sources).zip	73 KiB
sved-2023.3.zip	10 KiB
sved-2023.3 (sources).zip	73 KiB
sved-2023.2.zip	10 KiB
sved-2023.2 (sources).zip	72 KiB
sved-2023.1.zip	10 KiB
sved-2023.1 (sources).zip	70 KiB
sved-2023.0.zip	9 KiB
sved-2023.0 (sources).zip	70 KiB

LICENSE (MIT)

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.