EditV

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 EDITV is a character based DOS ASCII  textfile  editor  with  an  intuitive Windows-like  interface.

 Author:   Bob Ferguson
 Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ferguson/dosedit.html
 Family:   MsDosEditors 
 Platform: MS-DOS
 License:  Freeware
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It can be used for simple text-editing tasks, like creating or modifying batch files or program sources. It is based on the TFileEditor object included with Borland's Turbo Vision v2.0 for DOS.

Features:

Mouse support
Menu driven
Multiple document editing in separate windows
Context-sensitive on-line help
EGA support (screen height 25 or 43/50 lines)
Selectable display modes: color, gray shades and monochrome
Adjustable color palette
Cut and Paste functions
Cut/Paste? clipboard can be viewed, edited and saved to disk
Undo function
Read Only mode
Find/Replace? text (forward, backward, all, from cursor/entire text)
Text markers
Find matching bracket ({[< >]})
Find matching Quote ('..' and "..")
Auto-indent option
Insert and display control-characters
Optional display of ruler and line numbers
Option to create backup file when saving a document
Select recently opened/saved files from File menu
Select special characters (also ASCII 128-255) from a list
Print support with optional margins, headers, footers, etc.
DOS shell function
Execute Command feature with configurable command list
Support for Unix file format (using LF line-ends)
Display file statistics (character, word & line count)
Built-in clock
Optional separate input/output directories

Restrictions:

No WYSIWYG page formatting
No word-wrap
Maximum document size 64 kb

See also EditD by the same author for a Windows version