I must admit, I use Windows mostly to manage several DOS boxes only.

And my prefered datei manager is the good old Norton Commander and thus for very fast editing I use the builtin Norton editor.

On today machines its damned fast, many times before a human was able to release the F4 key again, the editor was always ready to work.

Absolute no hour glasses can be seen, only the human was the many times slowest part in this game.

And for more editing including syntax highligthing I use also the good old Borland-C DOS-IDE (only a little bit slower).

With some defines I can still do syntax checking on my C51 sources under Borland-C.

I must never fear hour glasses and I'm really in doubt, that there exist equal fast solutions under true Windows for my daily work.


Only what I have seen under Windows, all are very huge IDEs which starts very slowly with lots of bells and whistles and need really an adventure trip around the screen to manage all the needed settings for every project.


Peter