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WP-02:  Programmer's Editors


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2119 Programmer's Editors          Small Programs Disk
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Asm-ED
   Chicago Software
   $20
is a programmer's editor that is especially suited to Assembly Language.  It
lets you edit files and assemble them without exiting the editor.  Errors
found during assemble will be flagged and the cursor positioned on them
automatically.  The editor operates like the Borland editors.

Editeur de Texte 1.7 (ETA)
   Dupin, Bernard
   $25
is a programmer's editor optimized for speed by reading the entire file into
memory.  On a 640k machine, you can have a file of 6000 lines by 80
characters.  Lines may be up to 255 characters.  ET will edit any kind of
file, including EXE and COM files.  You can also run a compilation and see the
errors in the source code inside the editor.  This set of files, which comes
to us from Nice, France, also includes a French language version of the
editor.

heXEdit 2.0 (HEXEDT)
   Stuntz, Robert
   $0
will allow you to display and/or edit any file. Features include user selectable
colors, decimal, hexadecimal, octal and ASCII converter, and a pop-up ASCII
chart.

Pro-Ed 1.4
   Circle Software
   $10-$20
is a small, but full-featured text editor designed for programmers. It features
windows, bookmarks, search and replace, edit two files simultaneously, an
overwrite text-entry mode, automatic indentation, a function called super tab,
compare two files, the ability to work with lines of any length, and the ability
to shell to DOS.

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GEdit 2.0
   Cat Creek Enterprises, Inc.
   $50
   #3035
is an editor primarily for programmers, and those who are responsible for
providing technical support to multiple computer users. It provides viewing
and editing of disk files, floppy disk sectors, and computer memory.

It converts Wordstar and dBase III files into ASCII text file format and
directly edits dBase III files. Hexdumps of disk files and computer memory are
displayed. A set of supporting utilities are included to operate on the disk,
directory, and file levels. Disk files can be printed. Requires 320K.


Bingo Programmer's Editor 3.10a
   Schanck, Christopher R.S. ASP
   $40-$75
   #27087/2594 (10-93 CD)
is a fast programmer's editor with mouse support, macros, configurable
keyboard, the ability to open 50 files at a time, shell to DOS keeping only
10k of memory, compiler error parsing, nearly 200 utility functions, and more.
Through the implementation of a virtual memory management scheme, up to 256
Megabytes of file storage is possible.


Captain Blackbeard
   Powers, James K.
   $25
   #27087/1894
is the successor to Blackbeard, the multi-featured programmer's text editor.
This program contains all the editing features of the original program, plus
significant upgrades that provide an integrated software development
environment. In addition, it is available for OS/2. Multiple windows allow you
to view and edit multiple files, or different portions of the same file
simultaneously. Files can be up to 32,000 lines and 32 megabytes. Windows can
be resized and recolored. Other features include mouse support, keystroke
macros, cut and paste, several word processing features, the ability to define
linked windows and create a new editing window, and bookmarks. It supports
both EGA 43 line mode and VGA 50 line mode.


WED
   Washington Computer Corp.
   $30-$45
   #27087/648
is a screen oriented text editor designed primarily for programmers.  It is
fast, easy to use, and provides such advanced features as automatic indenting,
user defined macros and multiple file editing.  WED works well with the dBASE
III system.  It can be set up as the default editor and/or word processor
using the TEDIT and WP keywords in your CONFIG.DB file.

When WED is invoked, it allocates all available memory for use as the main
edit buffer. The entire edit file will be loaded into this buffer. With the
file in RAM, the editor does not need to access the disk during the edit
session. This enables WED to work extremely fast.

Features include horizontal scrolling that allows lines to be up to 32,000
characters long (!), split screen viewing of multiple files, on-line help, and
support for the upper ASCII characters. It features pop-up menus, context
sensitive help and a setup command which allows you to customize the editor at
any time during an edit session. The program can edit very large files with a
disk buffering technique. You can load and edit up to ten files at one time
and create up to forty macros. An undelete command enables you to retrieve the
last deleted block of text. The compile-from-WED function can swap text to
disk to make room for large compilers. Word-wrap is provided for documentation
writing and light word processing, a file-print function can print text or
source files with various formatting options, and a pop-up ASCII table
provides a quick reference for programmers.


WindE (WINDow Editor)
   DoWhile Software
   $40
   #27087/1776
is a super-slick text editor that is a mouse lover's dream. You point to the
file you want to edit and click the mouse. You position the window on the
screen for that file (or you can zoom to a full screen) by moving the mouse.
Scrolling of text up and down or side-to-side is fast and smooth by simply
pressing the left or right mouse buttons. A block of text can be selected with
a move of the mouse and with a click of a button, the text can be searched
for, deleted, copied, move, or replaced. Yet this is not a gimmicky text
editor that strains to use a mouse for the sake of saying that it uses a
mouse. Everything works logically and efficiently, and just to show the open
mindedness of the author, all of the mouse functions can be executed from the
keyboard too. The only bad news is that Winde completely bombed out DESQview
for us.


Blackbeard
   Powers, James K.
   $20
   #27268/802
is a powerful, multi-featured editor for programmers.  It is most useful for
editing source code but has some word processing features too.


Code Editor & Programming Environment (CEPE)
   Alvira, Jose Rodriguez
   $25
   #27268/1856
is a full-screen editor for programmers.  Features include search and replace,
block functions, undo changes, split screen for two files or different parts
of the same file, compile and debug and run programs from the editor, a pop-up
decimal/hex calculator, line numbers compatible with MASM and most compilers,
menu screen designing functions including line drawing and color support, macros
and time tracking for project billing, the ability to capture screens from
programs running under CEPE, and more. CEPE is written in assembly language.


DR-Edit
   D-R Software
   $30
   #27268/1230
is a new text editor with the following features in the shareware version:
edits files up to 200 lines (the registered version claims to be limited only
by memory); allows you to have two text files loaded for editing; features a
macro command language; keeps track of certain paired characters such as
parentheses, brackets and braces, which is helpful for programmers.  The only
problem we had were minor:  it will not accept a file name with a dash (`-' )
in it; the message line uses red text on green background and editing is white
on black and these colors cannot be changed; and the documentation file has a
lot of printer control characters embedded that make viewing on the screen
difficult.  Otherwise, this is a good editor.


Freemacs
   Stallman, Richard M. and Nelson, Russell N.
   $0
   #27269/1695 [2 disks]
is an editor fashioned after Emacs.  There are a number of Emacs clones for
the PC available.  Freemacs claims two characteristics that distinguish it
from other Emacs clones for the PC (such as the Brief editor):  it is a free
programmable editor, and it is like GNU Emacs.


Mega-Star
   Schmitt Software
   $50
   #27269/1896
is designed to serve for programmers to use for both writing code and writing
documentation.  Some of its features include macros, pull-down menus with
on-screen help, user definable Quick Keys, six windows that can be resized and
zoomed, table-of-contents and index creators, style sheets, book markers, and
more.


Qedit
   SemWare ASP
   $58
   #27270/1006
is a very popular, small, fast text editor.  Qedit will edit files in size up
to the maximum amount of system memory (excluding extended and expanded
memory).  This allows movement through the file to be very fast, unlike
editors that get and save small pieces of a file at a time on disk, but you
are still able to edit very large files (up to about 580k maximum).  For
example going from the beginning to the end of a 400k file is virtually
instantaneous with Qedit.  If you try that with WordStar, be sure to pack a
lunch.

Qedit allows you to have as many different files open for editing as memory
permits. Changing files and copying between files is quick and easy. Screen
splitting lets you see two files at once. Qedit works with Desqview.

Another major-league feature of Qedit is the ability to redefine the command
keys to your own taste. In testing, Qedit came up with a WordStar-like command
format (eg: ^QF for Find). If the thought of working in a WordStar-like
environment makes you gag, you'll really appreciate being able to redefine the
keys.

Qedit also lets you have up to 99 "scratch" buffers for the temporary storing
of data, in addition to the usual ways of directly copying blocks of text
between files or within a file. Other featured: delete character blocks as
well as line blocks; word-wrap and paragraph reformat; recover deleted lines
and blocks; keyboard macros; load multiple files from the DOS command line as
well as from within the editor; move or copy blocks directly between files; up
to eight windows; and optional pull-down menus. Swap to Disk/EMS for DOS/Shell
commands, set top and bottom print margins, Centerline command, delete, print,
and write Column blocks, restrict Find/Replace to a marked block, conditional
logic for macro language, Fillblock command, Shift entire block using TabLt
and TabRt keys, Repeat a command n times or until EOF, and additional C mode
extensions. Support is provided for enhanced keyboards and for larger than
normal (80x25) screens, up to 200 columns and 100 rows. Read-Only files can be
edited and written back to disk under a different name.


Qedit Utilities
   #27270/1668
contains the following programs to be used with Qedit:

QCOMP 1.01 (QuickCompiler; Mike Smedley; $0) will make compiling source code
programs from QEdit a lot easier. It allows you to have an editing key which
when pressed will compile your source code file, whatever the extension, and
bring up the errors in a QEdit window.

QED2BOX (Pete Petit; $0) are box-drawing macros for Qedit.

QEXTRA (Gene Catalano; $0) is a set of files containing information that
teaches you how to incorporate printer codes, word-processing format features,
and extended ASCII codes (including graphics capabilities) into QEDIT. Even if
you don't use QEDIT, the more than 200k of articles will teach you important
aspects of using word processors and text editors, and how to have more power
over your printer's capabilities and is applicable to most word processors and

QINTMAC 1.0 (Internal Macros For QEDIT 2.06B; Kirk Bubul; $0) is a set of
macros that aid in the gathering up of like-subject messages and appending
them into a scratch buffer called "YIN" for later relocation elsewhere in the
program.

QMAC 1.1A (Copyright 1988 Sammy Mitchell and Karl Brendel; $0) translates
macros from QEDIT's binary format file to a text file for easy macro editing,
after which it will translate the text back to binary. QMAC allows appending
to or overwriting existing files, making it easy to add new macros to existing
files. QMAC's text file format allows comments, permitting documentation of
the macros within their source file.


AMac
   Hogshead, Tom
   $0
   #27270/3004
contains various QEdit macros. There are macros to center lines, paragraphs,
and documents, allow the user to select files from a list, and paginate
documents. Also inlcluded is the ability to find multiple search text in
current file using FGREP or DOS's FIND, macros to spell check with ShareSpell,
a macro to toggle backups off, a modified right justify macro, commenting and
un-commenting macros, search and replace within Zip files macros, and bookmark
macros to jump to a position in a file and across files. These files unarchive
to over 600K.


Pas-Ed
   Hedco, Inc.
   $25
   #27373/2157
is a programmer's editor created to streamline the process of editing,
compiling, debugging, and running programs written in Turbo Pascal.  It can be
used for editing any text files, but it is optimized for TP.  Features: edit
up to 21 files in DOS + EMS memory; 43/50-line modes supported on EGA/VGA;
automatic TPC.CFG compiler configuration file generation based on menu
selections; EMS or disk swapping during DOS shells and compile, debug and run
sessions, which frees up all but 6.4k of DOS memory; automatic error locating,
including /F Find Error; automatic restoration of the previous setup at
startup; keyboard macros with adjustable playback delay; inter-file block copy
and move of text; find and replace using text from a marked block; jump to a
specific file or line number; 10 placemarkers that operate within and between
files; pop-up ASCII character table; and a pop-up extended key code table.


Softkey Editor
   Weidman, Henry
   $20
   #27373/1429
is an easy-to-use text editor with many advanced features:  use of the
extended ASCII character set; auto-indent; Block copy, delete, move and write;
calendar; DOS file management; hex, decimal calculator; multiple files with up
to 9 file windows; search and replace; EGA 43-line support; VGA 50-line
support; 254 columns; 7500+ lines; run programs (such as compilers)
concurrently; user-defined macros, a macro repeat feature and more.


Technical Editor
   Superior Soft, ASP
   $40
   #27373/2665
is a fast, full featured programmers' editor. You have the ability to edit any
size file using virtual memory and edit in multiple screens, each with up to 16
windows. Some other noted features include the ability to undo the last 1000
text changes, keyboard re-definition, binary and read-only editing modes, OS
environment, keyboard macros, regular expression search and replace, and more.


TVS
   #511
is mostly a programmer's editor. Pulled from listing, but still available.

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