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- A RECONFIGURABLE PROGRAMMER'S EDITOR
- WITH SOURCE CODE
-
- ME is a high quality programmer's text editor written specifically
- or the IBM PC. It contains features only found in the more expensive
- programmer's text editors. These features include :
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- Multiple Windows
- Column cut and paste
- Line marking for source code
- Regular Expressions
- C-like Macro Language
- Reconfigurable Keyboard
- Capture your DOS session
- Run your compiler and examine errors
- Comes with useful precompiled macros
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- FAST OPERATION
-
- A common complaint with some of the more expensive programmer's
- editors is the sluggish operation. Too many of the "basic" commands
- are implemented as macros, and virtual memory slows the operation even
- more. ME is extremely quick, keeping all text in memory. As the cost
- of memory decreases, and with most people owning at least 512K of
- memory, editing large files is no longer a problem. As the new
- generation of CPU chips emerge, most virtual memory operations will be
- handled by the hardware, not by the software.
-
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- C-LIKE MACRO LANGUAGE
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- New commands and features may be added to the editor by writing
- programs in its macro language. The language resembles C, and
- it's extremely easy to write and examine macros when you are not
- dealing with a parenthesized language like LISP. The macro languages
- comes with a rich set of primitives for handling strings and changing
- the editor environment. ou can assign a macro to any keystroke. You
- can even generate a macro from a keyboard macro.
-
- The editor comes with a macro compiler. The compiler takes the
- macro source file, and produces an intermediate code file from it. The
- intermediate code executes very quickly, and takes up little space.
-
- With the macro language, you can customize your programming
- environment for different languages and different compilers.
-
-
- MULTI-FILE EDITING
-
- The editor allows you to keep as many as 12 different windows on
- the screen simultaneously. Each window can contain a different file,
- or can have multiple views into the same file. Text can be easily
- transfered between windows. You can choose any window, and enlarge it
- to the size of the whole screen for easier editing.
-
-
- REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
-
- The UNIX(TM) operating system pioneered the use of regular ex-
- pressions in pattern matching. Regular expressions allow you to search
- for a context, such as "all lines beginning with the letter a,b, or
- c", or "any occurence of two numbers followed by a letter". The editor
- incorporates regular expressions into its search-and-substitute
- facility to allow powerful pattern matching.
-
-
- SAFETY FEATURES
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- To prevent a loss of your file, there are two safety features
- built in to the editor. After you save a file, the editor will make a
- backup copy of the old version. Also, the user can enable an option
- that dumps the current buffer out to a file after every n keystrokes.
- If the editing session terminates normally, then this temporary file
- is erased, but if the system crashes, then you can recover your edited
- file from this temporary file.
-
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- SOURCE CODE OPTION
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- The source code option lets you see how text editors are written,
- and gives you real-world applications of various data structures. You
- will also learn how to write interpreters by examining code to the
- macro language compiler and interpreter.
-
- If you have a favorite set of macros, you can code the macros in
- 'C', and add them to the editor. This will make your macros run much
- faster, and since you don't have to load them in, this will also save
- space.
-
- A unique advantage of the source code option is that many program-
- mers will have the opportunity to examine the code, improve parts of
- it, and add additional features. The best of these improvements and
- enhancements will be incorporated into future releases, which, as a
- registered source code user, you will receive updates for.
-
- The code is written in C, and conforms to the ANSI standard. This
- allows the code to be compiled with any compiler that supports the
- ANSI standard. A few of the string handling and input-output routines
- are written in 8086 assembly language for speed.
-
- The source code option is perfect for OEMs and VARs who want to
- add a text editor to their applications.
-
- END USER PRICES
-
- Price for program and on-line documentation $39.95
- Price for editor & complete source code $94.95
- Shipping & Handling US $ 2.00
- Overseas $ 5.00
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- VARS and OEMS - please contact us. We have very favorable terms which
- would allow you to sell the editor with your own product line.
-
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- MAGMA SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
- Marc Adler
- 138 - 23 Hoover Ave.
- Jamaica, New York 11435
-
- (718) 793 - 5670
-
- Please make checks out to Marc Adler
-