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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 3.1 08-93 CD
Schanck, Christopher R.S. ASP
$40-$75
#7087/2594
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
#7087/1894
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
#7087/648
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
#7087/1776
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
#7268/802
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
#7268/1856
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
#7268/1230
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
#7269/1695 [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
#7269/1896
is designed to serve for prog