LOL. Yes. That's what inspired me to write my own Windows text editor with smooth scrolling: http://deadfrog.co.uk
It's a bit rubbish.
It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. If it wasn't for the embedded Python interpreter, the entire install would be about 300k.
> It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though.
This needs to be in the marketing of your website!
It sounds like you're focusing on programmers, and I think they'll get the nostalgia of "remember the days when every byte mattered?" With the 1TB drive in my laptop I don't actually care about app size, but I love that you have a 1MB text editor in the days of Electron-based hipster minimalist text editors that are over 400MB.
The story in your release notes about resisting adding a hi-res Vista icon because you thought 260KB for an icon was obscene, that story is both hilarious and awesome :)
It looks like this is mostly just a fun project for you, but as a potential user I'd love to see more screenshots, an EXE installer option instead of .zip, and a big download button on the front page so I don't have to dig through the site to find how to download.
But most of all, I think it's hilarious/awesome to see a text editor with a "Frames Per Second" meter! :)
I do. CED was simply amazing both feature wise and for its speed and smoothness. Text searching and replacing was really fast too. Later I became a registered user of GoldEd which was more programmer oriented and incredibly rich in features, scriptable etc, still it could not reach CED speed.
Also, a mouse pointer that was synced to vertical blank together with a mouse that seemed to feed the computer with events fast enough to make it non-laggy and fluid.
