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You might want to try SETEDIT or RHIDE. SETEDIT is an editor and RHIDE is an IDE, both written using the Turbo Vision toolkit.

and there really isn't a simple console (text-mode) editor geared for DOS/Windows users available on Linux.

I assume you are looking for an interface with the basic CUA (Windows) keybindings? Unfortunately, AFAIK, full support for CUA seems to be virtually impossible in the generic case of remote terminals (due to ESCaping keycodes and the ancient keyboard limitations kept alive by terminal emulators -- e.g. this is the reason you have to hit ESC twice in mc to register a single ESC), but in the specific case of the Linux Console (which has direct access to hardware), this is possible.

Many editors have CUA bindings, though to varying degrees of success. e.g. Emacs or Jed. Unfortunately, some of the time it feels like a hack and a few might even require manually modifying Linux's keymappings.

Perhaps the closest I've found is SetEdit, which is based on a port of the TurboVision text-mode windowing library, which is very comfortable for me since I used to use the old DOS Borland IDE, which also happens to have an OSS Linux version called Rhide.

I love text-mode and I think a lot could be done to improve it in Linux; particularly, "fixing" the ancient terminal system and providing for modular non-linear behavior. Sometimes I don't want to deal with the 100MB+ required for X (not to mention GNOME & KDE for apps that are dependent upon them), but I'd like a non-linear interface.

Screen is a step in the right direction, though it is not (initially) very user-friendly (not using Windows/CUA keybindings ;)). I've also found the simpler dtach to be useful at times.

I don't know why more non-linear text mode applications aren't created. I've found a few that are made as independent ncurses apps, but, ideally, I think they should all use some standard text windowing environment. Recently, I noticed Twin which looks familiar (tvision?), but doesn't seem to be very actively used... and I don't know if it supports CUA keybindings.

Hope this helps.

The old-style Turbo C IDE does exist for Linux. A clone called RHIDE provides a very similar look and feel, and many new features.

It was called TurboVision. A user-maintained fork still exists and has been ported to various platforms and compilers including gcc and Linux.

Rhide, my favorite console IDE, uses TurboVision.

There is something, it's called RHIDE. It's actually quite slick, I used to use it for programming apps using djgpp. I haven't used it in quite a while, but it looks like it's still quite active, with the latest release being Feb. of this year.

However the new Pascal, namely Object Pascal, is implemented in BP 7.0, Delphi, Free Pascal and (mostly) GPC. Thus it's already open and widely available.

This time the standards organization is not IEEE but Borland. And Borland has no bad reputation in this area. They are nice to developers even to compatitors (eg: they have allowed use of Turbo Vision libraries in rhide).

My absolute favorite programming IDE ever was Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0; therefore, I'm a sucker for any editor written in TurboVision, like RHIDE or SetEdit.

DOS Edit is still pretty decent in the console; on the GUI side, NoteTab is a notepad replacement on steroids (the "Light" version is free).

If you download Cygwin, you can compile almost any UNIX-y text editor you want, including my favorite--nano.

And if all else fails, Ask Google!

Borland's only a couple years late.

Good try, anyway.

RHIDE had me pretending to be using Turbo C++ for the longest time.

buy a nice 2nd hand computer, install linux on it

Good idea, considering that Devkit Advance (a GCC port for cross-development of GBA software) is also available on Linux. However, some of the graphics tools may be Windows-specific.

nad then have a decent development platform that is legal. Otherwise little Johhny will have to search the WareZ sites for Visual studio or VC++

You assume that there is no relatively easy-to-use development environment on Windows other than Visual C++. Have you considered RHIDE (Borland-ish IDE for DOS, which is also available for Linux) plus MinGW (GCC port for native development of Windows software) or RHIDE plus Devkit Advance?

Windows creates criminals

You have that backwards. Microsoft Corporation is a criminal. Microsoft created Windows. Therefore, criminals created Windows.