Design & development of a new and efficient approach for line text editing in Turbo C for Windows

Text editors come in the forms viz. Line editors, Stream editors, Screen editors, Word processors, Structure editors, etc. There are many text editors provided with Windows viz. Notepad, WordPad, Microsoft Office Word, etc. The MS-DOS editors viz. EDLIN, EDIT also work in Windows. But none of the above editors is interactive. The process of entering the programs/text shall be greatly enhanced, for the newcomers, if the editor is an interactive one. This paper gives the design & development of a new and efficient approach for line text editing, the most basic and fundamental editing, in Turbo C for Windows OS. It is proposed to give a new, interactive, and more user friendly approach to line text editing for document/non document(program) files using singly linked lists. A menu driven program is designed and developed. The program displays all the options and once a user chooses a particular option, he is prompted further interactively. The program is fully tested on Windows XP, with total RAM = 256 MB. This research work has, in all, twenty three options and is academically(not available in any book) very useful for the Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology disciplines.