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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.



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/


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


Hoe do you run it?


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).


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




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