[int_19h]

While we're at it, for those times when you're hacking on console apps, FreePascal also has a very nice text-mode (TUI) IDE that is basically a Turbo/Borland Pascal 7.0 IDE clone - but cross-platform.

To do that, they had to port Turbo Vision (or rather its open source fork Free Vision). It's still a great TUI library... it's a shame it's Pascal-specific. Would be interesting to have an implementation of it for, say, Python, for system tools and the like.

[pjmlp]

The Turbo Vision IDE was actually introduced with version 6.0 as an example what the framework was capable of.

It was later available in C++ as well, and there is a port available.

http://tvision.sourceforge.net/

[int_19h]

Yeah. I was thinking more like C (with possibly glib as the object model), so that it can then be wrapped in Python etc.

[throwaway7645]

Hoe do you run it?

[int_19h]

Even that is a throwback to Turbo Pascal - you type "fp" in the shell (on Windows, after adding C:\FPC\bin or equivalent to your PATH).

[throwaway7645]

Thank you...I'll try that again.