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E4(tm) Editor Complete Feature List
(C) Copyright Neil Faulks 1991-1993. All Rights Reserved.
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Easy to use
- hintline guides novice users
- commentary for Cut & Paste operations
- intuitive, efficient user interface.
Fast to use
- Common commands are single keystrokes
- Fast I/O and other operations
Small
- the executable is less than 40K on disk
- Optional 80K help file can be relocated.
Comprehensive context-sensitive on-line help
- press a key to find out about it
- look up topics alphabetically
- helps with DOS errors
Outlining for programmers
- view the structure of your program
- move blocks of code easily
- helps top-down design
Outlining for documents
- Order your thoughts before you start
- move chapters as if they were a single line
Mouse support
- any Microsoft compatible mouse
SVGA support for all text modes of your video card
- 132x50, 100x40, 80x50, 80x28, etc.
Modest System Requirements
- Any PC or 100% compatible
- DOS 3.0 or higher
- 128K RAM
- 200K of disk for full installation
- 40K of disk for minimum installation
Edit multiple files (100+) (64k limit per file)
- Load files using wildcards from inside editor or on
command line
Powerful Dialog editing
- filename completion
- history editing
Resume mode
- remembers what you were editing weeks before (even if
you don't)
- essential for editing AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS
- per directory Resume State
Macros with learn facility
- editable within the editor
- keystroke macros, named macros and abbreviations
- extension specific macros
- directory specific macros
Redefinable keyboard layout
- easy and powerful
Powerful buffer manager screen
- sort buffers by filename, date/time, or extension
- pick files from buffer list, or by first few chars of
name
Handles Read-Only files
- Preserves attributes of files, including Hidden,
System, Read-only and Shareable (on Networks) flags
Easy Block Marking
- traditional mark and move
- using shifted arrow keys
- multiple keypress/mouse clicks to select words, lines,
etc.
Easy (Mac-style) Cut-and-Paste between buffers
- Editable Clipboard
Easy line Marking, Copying, Moving
- one keystroke per line for Yanking or Inserting
Advanced Search & Replace
- search (and replace) across all open files
- forward/backwards, change direction with single key
- search whole of current file or
- search to start/end of file
- optional loop at end of file/all files
- search marked block
- search for marked block/word
- whole word search
- caseless search
- find string at start or end of line
- search for end-of-line sequences CRLF/CR/LF
Read or write a block of text from/to a file
- write can replace, backup or append to target file
- reads can be undone and relocated
No mutilation of file in any way, E4 supports
- long lines
- full 8-bit character set (including NULLS)
- no CRLF on last line
- with or without ^Z
- you can even edit the text of .EXE files
- any character may be entered from the keyboard
Multi-System support
- allows direct editing of UNIX and Macintosh text files
Continuous display of character under cursor as
- graphic (for control characters)
- hex and decimal
Automatic File analysis on loading
- warns of NULLS, control characters or IBM Characters
- indictates end-of-line sequence(s) used
- can be run manually
Block operations
- search for marked block
- confine search to block
- print
- write to file
- indent/outdent
- read block from file
Special backup system dispenses with .BAK files
- tidies your directories
- more reliable
Automatic timed backups of all loaded files
- configurable on a per directory basis
Execute DOS commands
- built-in file deletion and change directory
- shell to DOS
- command history and filename completion
- execute commands directly or using COMMAND.COM
- copes with CD whilst shelled out
Compile programs from inside the editor
- Swap text to disk
- Automatic file saving and reloading
- Full Error Parsing/Tracking
Template files for new files
- program skeleton files
- boilerplate memos
- Template macros, e.g. insert date/filename, etc.
Programmer's Reference tools
- ASCII Chart
- PC Colour Codes
- scan and ASCII codes for keyboard keys
- convert MSDOS error codes to messages
Project Files: multiple edit sessions can be stored and recalled
- allows easy compilation of projects using MAKE
- automatic project file creation
Picture Mode allows drawing using line-draw characters
- automatic extension of lines with spaces
WordWrap & WordProcessing modes
- auto (live) or manual reformating
- indented paragraphs
- hanging paragraphs
- adjustable left & right margins
- suitable for formatting program comments through to
simple Word Processing
Print file or block
- CR or CRLF printers
- optional FF at end of job
- strip or preserve control characters
- adjustable left margin
- initialisation String
- PostScript printer support (using E4PRINT program)
Optional extra External Command Modules
- Date/Time insertion in any format (included)
- Programmer's Calculator (optional)
- Many more planned
Classic Features
- auto indent for program editing
- optional Tab to Space expansion on entry
- toggle case, make uppercase, lowercase, or title
- bracket Matching and mismatch location
- multiple Bookmarks/Tags
Extra Features
- Onscreen clock
- Screen Saver
Simple installation and Configuration
- configurable using files and/or environment variables
- separate colour settings for Colour & Mono displays
- option settings stored on per-extension basis
Windows Ready
- Runs fine in DOS box
- Supports 50-line mode in DOS Box
Network Friendly
- Used on several educational networks
- global and user specific configuration
- support for Novell shareable attributes