Re:Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in ...
by zozbot234 on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:07AM
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As far as pure UX is concerned, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ are still a gold standard of text-mode IDE's.
Emacs has tried to add a bit of the same featureset lately, like it will show a primitive TUI menubar if you launch it from a terminal but it's quite half-baked; the look and feel is sub-standard, and mouse interaction (via gpm or xterm) doesn't actually work by default. (Of course I realize that capturing mouse events is not always desired but it should be reasonably easy to allow this, maybe even as a default.) And it still lacks other basic UX elements like floating windows for dialog boxes, or resizing/rearranging windows with the mouse.
FreePascal still ships a proper TUI IDE, and there's a FreeDOS text-mode IDE for C/C++ known as RHIDE.
Emacs has tried to add a bit of the same featureset lately, like it will show a primitive TUI menubar if you launch it from a terminal but it's quite half-baked; the look and feel is sub-standard, and mouse interaction (via gpm or xterm) doesn't actually work by default. (Of course I realize that capturing mouse events is not always desired but it should be reasonably easy to allow this, maybe even as a default.) And it still lacks other basic UX elements like floating windows for dialog boxes, or resizing/rearranging windows with the mouse.
FreePascal still ships a proper TUI IDE, and there's a FreeDOS text-mode IDE for C/C++ known as RHIDE.