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ED - The Advanced Configurable Editor. Demonstration Version 3.00 22 Jun 94
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This is a Demonstration Copy of the fourth release of the award winning
Windows version of "ED - The Intelligent, Configurable Editor".
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ED for Windows - The power development environment that works YOUR way.
ED, The fastest, most flexible way to slash development time
ED is at the absolute leading edge in editors. Supporting both DOS
and Windows, ED is as easy to use as it is to spell. Up and running
straight out of the box for the new user but highly configurable, ED
fits the way YOU want to work.
For programmers, ED is the one-stop productivity tool that slashes
coding time while placing all YOUR tools just a mouse click away. ED
powers up YOUR development environment, without tying you to a
particular language or platform. From C to COBOL, ED speaks your
language; from colour syntax highlighting and auto code completion to
advanced tools like file difference analysis and spell checking, ED
makes it easy to get the job done.
ED Saves you time
No need to learn a new set of commands - emulation for most other
common editors is provided, or you can create your own. Customizable
menus and toolbars with toolhints, tool drag and drop and extensive
context sensitive help get you going fast!
ED Boosts Productivity
ED slashes coding time with smart indenting, code templates and colour
syntax highlighting for 28 different languages - then lets you compile
and correct errors without ever leaving ED!
ED Gives YOU control
ED takes intelligent language sensitive editing, then adds access to
compilers, error tracking and YOUR tools from inside the edit session.
ED wraps them up into a development environment that does it YOUR
way. Use ED straight out of the box, use ED's flexible configuration
options, or create your own custom enhancements using ED's fast C
extension language - YOU are in control.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Facts and Features
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Powerful Editing Features
Multiple windows with multiple files within a window
Virtual memory engine handles huge files
Windows toolbars with tool hints
Keyboard remapping
Named keyboard macros
Unlimited undo and redo
Auto-save and optional backup files
Cut/copy/paste across files and windows
Column, line and stream blocks
Shift blocks horizontally left and right
Column block operations including overlay, move, copy and fill
Block sorting
Rulers
Printing with font selection, headings and line numbers
Regular expressions, search across files, search
filtering and incremental search
Advanced Productivity Tools
File difference analysis
Search across all files on disk
Spelling checker with 100,000 word dictionary and user defined word list
Gets You Up and Running Fast
ED can emulate almost any editor
Support included for
Brief Windows/CUA
MultiEdit Norton
Wordstar Qedit
ED's menus, keyboard and toolbars are easily reconfigured to
suit your specific requirements
Powerful Programming Support
Intelligent language sensitive editing
Smart code indenting, code templates, auto-completion and
bracket matching
Hypertext function/procedure lookup
Compiler support with error tracking
Run compilers or tools without leaving ED
ED for DOS shrinks to 4K
ED for Windows runs the compiler in background while you keep
working
After compiling, automatic error tracking puts you at the point
in the source where the error occurred
Compiler/Make output displayed in an ED window in real-time
Colour Syntax Highlighting
See your code in a whole new light
Language sensitive
Support for 28 languages pre-defined
27 individual language elements for each language
User defined word lists
Speaks Your Language
Assembler FoxPro
Basic Lisp
C/C++ Paradox
Clipper Pascal
COBOL PL/I
dBase Progress
DOS Batch files SQL
FORTRAN Windows INI file format
28 pre-defined languages currently supported
Simple ASCII text file format for user modification, extension
or customization of word lists and templates
Code Navigation and Browsing
With ED's function tags database you can:
Access any function in any source file
Query functions using wildcards
Popup a list of all functions in the current source file and
go to any one
Move to the next or previous function
Locate and open language include files
Extract dBase/Clipper DBF file field information
Built-in C Extension Language
Write your own extensions to ED
Around one megabyte of source provided
All the Help You Need
Extensive context sensitive help
Quick reference help
Word search across help files
Full support for Windows SDK and other Windows help files
Right click on any word for context sensitive API help
Full Environment Support
English, German and Japanese versions available
Full international keyboard support
Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) Kanji support in Japanese
version
Support for UNIX files and mainframe DOS emulators
Common features, functions and documentation across DOS and
Windows
Network Support
Files locked during editing
Locked files can be viewed by other users
Configuration and history information maintained independently
for each user
Requirements
ED for Windows minimum configuration:
IBM or compatible computer
Microsoft Windows 3.x
2 MB RAM
2 MB available disk space
DOS version 3.1 or later
ED for DOS minimum configuration:
IBM or compatible computer
DOS version 3.1 or later
640K RAM
2 MB available disk space
Japanese version requires Microsoft "J" version software
New Features in ED for Windows Version 3
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Configurable Toolbars
Up to 4 docked toolbars (at top, left, bottom or right of
screen)
Up to twelve floating, resizable toolbars
Customisation dialog for quick and easy set-up
Buttons tied to any:
ED command
Macro or extension program
Compiler/Make program
DOS or Windows program
Various size bitmap buttons to suit different display
resolutions
Drag and drop tools within toolbars
Tool hints provide pop-up help on toolbar items
Enhanced Compiler Support
All DOS program output displayed in an ED window in real-time
Keyboard input supported for programs running in the ED DOS
window
All DOS output captured to a file
A mouse-click on any error line within the ED DOS window jumps
to the location in the offending source module
DOS batch files can be run within the ED DOS window
New Spelling Checker
A spelling checker with a 100,000 word dictionary has been added
A user defined dictionary is supported
Filter support can be used to target or exclude specific
language elements such as strings
Easier Configuration
Clearer and easier to use
Items grouped according to use
Vertical scroll-bar, horizontal scroll-bar and Tool hints
options added
Precision Search and Replace
Support for filtered searching and new Search options:
Include or exclude specific textual elements
Improved block search and replace
Match whole word only
Place cursor at end of match
Find all occurrences to extract every string from a set of
source files
Improved File Open Dialog
File name completion
Configurable file types
Drive/directory history list
More Languages
Support for six more languages has been added:
Smalltalk Eiffel
Rexx PL/I
Forth Cicode
ED now supports 28 development languages
27 individual language elements for each language
Language templates are now specified in simple text files
And Much More
Files opened in view mode can be toggled to edit mode without
being reloaded from disk
Bracket code completion supported for any language
Difference analysis windows can be tiled vertically or
horizontally
ED is designed for the 90's and gives you the absolute leading edge in
intelligent, language sensitive programmer's editors. Discover the tool
for DOS and Windows that frees you from the tedium of editing and lets
your creative instincts flow!
No developers' toolkit is complete without ED, the power programmers'
editor.
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**** ED NEWS and REVIEWS ****
"ED - The Programmer's Editor is used throughout Australia by both
instructors and students during our Institutes courses for C & C++
Development and Windows Programming courses. ED is one of the few
Australian computer products that looks, feels and behaves like the
ultimate programmers editor. It's a pleasure using ED to enhance
our courses."
Professor Vance Gledhill - Director of the Microsoft Institute.
The quality and professionalism presented in ED is at the highest
level. It looks and feels like a Quality (Microsoft) Product."
Professor Vance Gledhill - Director of the Microsoft Institute.
ED for Windows was one of the earliest Windows configurable
programmer's editors, and this new release keeps it well ahead of the
competition.
PC WEEK (Aus)
ED includes some features that are likely to wind up as "must haves"
in any programming editor. For users who spend time picking up the
pieces after another programmer has abandoned ship, ED's hypertext
function lookup capabilities make it a winner.
DATA BASED ADVISOR (US)
"ED is a great editor that I can recommend confidently".
Japan Windows Magazine, review of Japanese ED for Windows with
full 2 byte Kanji support.
"Students' reaction to ED's user friendly features is always
positive. ED emulates Microsoft's bundled Windows editors as well
as DOS editors such as Brief and MultiEdit, which means our new
students are quickly at home in our computer training labs,
programming faster and easier than with other editors."
"Students find ED to be most impressive due to its ability to be
extended with hot keys, macros and language extensions to achieve
what is lacking in present Windows editors. As a full time tutor
and user of good development tools, I recommend ED as an
indispensable productivity tool for professional software
developers."
Gurpritpal Singh, Manager for Course Development - Microsoft Institute
Previous attempts at creating the ultimate editor for Windows have
always failed because of inflexibility: too often the editor would
impose a style of working that did not necessarily suit the
programmer. Happily, ED is highly configurable and has all the
functions that could be expected.
UK Windows User Magazine.
"The diversity of needs and expectations of text editors has
resulted in a dilution of capabilities and performance. The
successful "editor" of the future will be designed by someone
that can blend innovation with expectations and actually
improve performance, rather than degrade it. It appears
you've taken this challenge."
Bill French
Author of dBrief and Evolve (dBrief for Multiedit) and
co-creator of LapLink.
ED for Windows is clearly the best Windows programming editor
on the market, and we've found it to be almost limitless in
its flexibility and usability. This is supported by every
member of my team.
Luke Smith, PC Development Manager,
Dun & Bradstreet Information Services.
"ED for Windows" won the Australian PC92/PC WEEK "Best New Software
Product Award" for 1992.
US PC WEEK Aug 10, 1992 stated "Although ED Ver 1,00 has a few
minor first-version bugs, it offers a series of nice touches
typical of products far more mature than this" and continues
"ED's features are some of the most powerful PC WEEK Labs has
seen in a Windows programming editor".
US Windows Tech Journal, said "ED has 70 buffers that provide
an intuitive, flexible architecture..., ED's outstanding help
system includes Windows SDK help..., ED has unique
capabilities that make you think, 'Why didn't I think of
that?'" and concludes with "This is one editor that is well
worth keeping an eye on."
UK Program Now, wrote "ED for DOS has become one of the
established programmer's editors. ED is now available in a
Windows version, the first significant editor available under
this environment." The article concludes "ED4W does more than
enhance all the normal ED features with a GUI interface and
fully exploits the Windows interface. It offers developers
significant gains in productivity compared with a DOS editor.
ED for Windows is well worth consideration by any developer
for any development environment."
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Installation Procedure
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Place the Demonstration Disk into drive A. Change to drive A and
type WIN INSTALL at the DOS prompt. This will start Windows, and
run the Install program. Alternatively use the Program Manager
File|Run menu item and type "A:INSTALL". In this example drive A
can be any floppy drive.
The Install main menu offers two options.
o Complete installation
o Custom Installation
For the Demonstration version of ED select "Complete" installation.
When Install has finished, ED will be added to Program Manager.
ED may then be run by double clicking on the ED4W icon.
You need approximately 2,000 KBytes of free disk space to install
the Demonstration version of ED.
Feel free to give your colleagues and friend's copies of the ED
Demonstration system.
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Overview
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ED the programmers' editor is setting today's standards for
Windows and DOS environments. Designed for professionals and new
users alike, ED incorporates the best features found in all
other programming editors, and we've then added a "hand's full"
more.
ED is your one-stop programming productivity tool. ED supports
Assembler, C/C++, Cicode, Cobol, Eiffel, Forth, Fortran, dBase,
Clipper, FoxPro, DataFlex, Lisp, Pascal, Paradox, Progress,
Prolog, Rexx, Smalltalk and SQL languages; Color Syntax
highlighting with user defined word lists, Automatic code
indenting; Automatic code completion; Function/Procedure
lookups; Keyboard macros; 100% keyboard remapping; "session
recall"; Compiler support and so much more.
ED has received outstanding reviews since its debut in 1988, and
its regular ongoing development assures ED stays at the forefront
of editing technology.
For the new user, ED's features are all encapsulated into a
selectable emulation environment (Brief, Wordstar, MultiEdit,
Norton, Qedit...). Learning is optimised, you receive a quantum
leap in efficiency and the wealth of ED's distinctive features
will permit you to manage the business whilst ED manages your
code.
For the seasoned user, ED's appearance as the first programmers
editor for Windows and the steady flow of enhancements continues
to reward ED users and supports ED's continual rating as the
optimum professional programmer's editor.
ED will increase your productivity from day one, by simplifying
and automating many tedious and time consuming tasks.
Increased productivity now
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Language sensitive editing automatically indents your code as
you write it, providing a consistent well laid out style with no
effort on your part.
ED's color syntax highlighting lets you see your code in a whole
new light. User defined words lists enable you to add your own
words and have them highlighted in colors you choose. Compilation
and syntax errors are reduced dramatically.
Code templates dramatically reduce the number of keystrokes
needed to enter common code fragments. Code completion writes
code for you.
To let you quickly navigate around your many source files and
functions, ED provides hypertext like capabilities for all of
your functions, procedures and methods. This indispensable
feature gets you to any function in any source file at the touch
of a key.
Use keys you already know
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You do not need to learn a new set of keyboard commands to use
ED. We have taken the industry standard text editing command
sets and made them available to you as a configuration setting.
Brief, Multiedit, Wordstar, Norton, Qedit... formats are
available, or you can easily create your own.
What about a safety net? Undo, Redo, Auto-save!
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There's unlimited Undo for undoing any mistake you happen to
make, be it a simple cursor movement or an accidental block
delete. This is teamed with full Redo just in case you undo a
bit too far. Auto-save periodically saves any changes you make,
to a temporary file, and optional Backup files are kept whenever
you save a file.
Making ED your editor
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Many users want to configure an editor to suit their specific
needs. With ED you can set up the keyboard, toolbars and menus
as you like, and an extensive range of configuration options are
provided. Our powerful built-in C extension language enables you
to modify and extend its capabilities as required. A large part
of ED is written in this extension language and full source code
is provided.
ED's macros stop you repeating yourself
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Keyboard macros are used to repeat a common task on a regular
basis. Record any series of keystrokes, name them, and then
replay them when required - it's that simple.
I need that piece of code here, now!
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Block operations including stream, line and rectangular column
blocks are fully supported. You can cut, copy and paste blocks
between files and windows, with just a few keystrokes. In
addition, you can move blocks left and right, fill blocks,
search within blocks, align comments and more.
Full Search and Replace capability
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ED optimises the time taken to accomplish complex Search and
Replace chores. Each time you look for something, ED remembers
it in a history list, even between editing sessions. Later on
you can just pick it from the list instead of typing the same
string over and over. Of course there are full regular
expression capabilities, case insensitive search, incremental
search, search and replace across files and more.
What Compiler support is provided?
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You can run any compiler without leaving ED. After compiling,
error tracking positions you at each error. ED for DOS shrinks
to 4K leaving plenty of memory to run any program. ED for
Windows runs your DOS compilers in the background so you can
keep on working. All DOS output is captured and displayed in an
ED window in real time. It even lets you know when the compiler
has finished and lets you fix any errors.
But I want ED on a Network!
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On a LAN, ED locks files you're editing so no one else can
change them. Other team members can still view the files and
extract information. Each team member has their own personal
configuration setup and history lists.
GUI help when and where you need it
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Put your SDK Reference back on the Bookshelf. ED for Windows
gives you full context sensitive Windows SDK help for all API
functions, messages, data structures, printer escapes and
utility macros. Just click the right mouse button on the item
where you want help and up comes the information you need. The
right mouse button gives you SDK help, bracket, comment and
object matching, hypertext function and procedure lookup and
opens #include files. (Another "how did I ever live with out it"
feature.)
Can I edit big files?
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ED uses its own fast Virtual memory editing engine so file
sizes, undo, history lists etc. are not limited by your
operating system or environment.
What about "Session Recall"
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ED remembers all windows, files and history lists between
editing sessions. When reloading ED, you are presented with the
same environment and history lists you used in the last session.
File history lists keep track of the work you have been doing,
on a project by project basis.
Who should use ED?
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ED is suited to programmers requiring the absolute leading edge
in program editors. ED combines the best editing tools into one
user configurable package that suits novice through to
professional programmers. There is simply no reason for not
using ED in any development environment.
Where is ED going?
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ED for Windows is now in its fourth major release and with each
new version ED continues to break new ground.
ED was the first fully featured editor available for Windows and
is still the only editor available for both DOS and Windows
platforms.
Functionality, features and form are common across platforms,
allowing you to easily migrate from one to the other while
retaining a consistent, easy to use and powerful development
environment.
Soft As It Gets is committed to success and excellence in
everything it does. This attitude is reflected in our products
and the quality of the support we provide to you.
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ED for Windows and ED for DOS have been designed, written and
developed by:
Neville Franks,
Soft As It Gets Pty Ltd
3 Pullman Court,
East St Kilda,
Victoria, 3183
Australia
Ph. +61 3 885 4445
FAX +61 3 885 4444
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