@vevy: It's done (see viewtopic.php?p=99842#p99842).
Very much hidden in plain sight in the eXtreme homepage is TDE (the Thomson-Davis Text Editor), a CLI oriented text editor already up to v5.1v+s3 (no homepage or changelog, all info gathered from text files included in the download package available under the "Official Text Editor" header).
Apparently, it is natively portable (duh!) with the configuration kept in 'tde.ini' in the program folder.
A sample config is provided which aims to turn TDE into a Wordstar clone ("the horror, the horror...") but it also serves extremely well to demonstrate its extensive customization capabilities -- now if someone would come up with a Wordperfect for DOS configuration, we'd be going to a whole new level...
TDE also includes a syntax highlighter for several well known programming languages. It's executable weighs a mere 373kB and the installer in which it is provided can easily be (Uni)extracted.
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; WORDSTAR.CFG - configures TDE to emulate the keymap of WordStar 4.0.
; Version 1.1 (2005-01-24) - refines an earlier version of this config file
; Version 1.3 (2005-07-11) - adds missing WS commands (^KM,^QP,^QV), 3 new
; commands (^QM,^OM,^OX) to the keymap, improves WS emulation on several
; commands.
; Version 1.4 (2010-4-14) - heavily modify for use with EXTREME file manager.
;
; To install:
;
; 1. EDIT THE PATH TO THE HELP FILE. Look for "config/wordstar.txt"
; near the end of this file and edit the path to match your location.
;
; 2. MAKE TDE FIND THIS CONFIG FILE. There are 2 ways to do this:
; (1) Use the i switch: "tde -i \path\to\wordstar.cfg ...". Or,
; (2) Put the original "tde.cfg" in a different directory; rename this
; file to "tde.cfg" and put it in the same directory as "tde.exe".
;
; 3. Syntax highlighting also makes use of ^K3, ^KF and ^KB - keep control
; pressed to use the WordStar function, release it for the language.
;
; ALT-5 will show an internal help menu of WordStar commands in TDE. Most of
; my changes restored two-key commands for ^K (block), ^O (onscreen) and
; ^Q (quick) menus. A few single-key commands were changed to their WordStar
; defaults.
;
; -- Eric Pement
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