ED for Windows

Intelligent, language sensitive programmers editor and IDE. Use with Assembler, C/C++, Matlab, Progress, PHP, Ruby, VHDL, Cobol, Fortran, Java, Perl, SQL or many other languages.
ED for Windows, is a power packed, intelligent, language sensitive programmers editor and IDE. Whether you program in Assembler, C/C++, Matlab, Progress, PHP,Ruby, VHDL, Cobol, Fortran, Java, Perl, SQL or one of the many other languages ED supports you'll quickly be impressed by its capabilities.

Key Features:

• A power packed User Interface, which is highly configurable to work with you, and not against you. This is backed by a fast text editing engine which lets you edit huge files with ease.
  
• Strong Code automation capabilities let ED write code for you and fill in the blanks. And ED's Macros automate common repetitive tasks.
  
• Broad Language support enables you to do all of your development in one consistent development environment.
  
• Power Search and Replace, with full Regular Expression support, and fast multi-threaded modeless operation.
  
• Unparalleled Source Code Navigation capabilities with ED's Source Code Database Engine.
  
• Visually compare files for differences with ED's intuitive difference analysis engine.
  
• Quickly access files by; grouping them together in Projects, using ED's enhanced File Open dialog, its built-in Explorer like Files window, or the File history list.
  
• Slice and dice text using Stream, Column or Line based text selections. Go beyond cut, copy and paste with fill, sort, indent/undent, convert case, find & replace, and drag and drop within or across windows and applications.
  
• Run your Build Tools such as Compilers, Linkers, Make etc. directly from ED. Jump to errors and fix them on the spot.
  
• See your documents on paper, not just on screen, and in color no less. Print headers, footers and line numbers and preview the printout before you commit.

ED for Windows - Features

Features

ED for Windows is a Universal IDE that include thirty three pre-defined languages and that enables new languages to be defined. It formats and writes code with smart indenting, code templates and skeletons, auto correction and smartype, code completion and auto-case conversion to produce legible, correct code with colour syntax highlighting. Support is provided for thirtylanguages and errors can be compiled and corrected without leaving ED. Support is included for:

• Brief
• Windows/CUA
• MultiEdit
• Norton
• Wordstar
• Qedit.

Features include:

• Go to any function in any source file
• Access 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
• Perform statement and bracket matching
• Get context sensitive help on any word in any Windows help file
• Insert hypertext jumps in any file and go to them
• Visually compare files for differences
• Search and replace across all files on disk
• Spell check with 100,000 word dictionary and user defined word list
• Compile and fix errors from within ED
• Hypertext function lookup and help
• Long filename support under Windows 95
• 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
• Language sensitive
• Twenty seven languages elements for each language
• User defined word lists.
• Files locked during editing
• Locked files can be viewed by other users
• Configuration and history information maintained independently for each user
• Copy, Rename and Delete files
• Change file attributes
• Extensive context sensitive help
• Quick reference help
• Word search across help files
• Full support for Microsoft Windows SDK and other Microsoft Windows help files
• Right click on any word to obtain context sensitive API help
• Filtered searches to include or exclude specific textual elements
• Search and replace across files, directories and drives
• Regular expressions, Ignore case, Match whole word
• Incremental search
• Search and replace within marked blocks
• History lists for repeating previous searches
• ED's menus, keyboard and toolbars are easily reconfigured to suit specific requirements
• Write extensions to ED
• Approximately one megabyte of source provided.
• Multiple windows with multiple files within a window
• Virtual memory engine handles big files
• Named keyboard macros to simplify repetitive tasks
• Templates and Skeletons write code
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Cut/copy/paste across files and windows
• Column, line and stream blocks
• Shift blocks horizontally left and right
• Drag and drop text
• Column block operations including overlay, move, copy and fill
• Temporary text buffers
• Sort blocks of text
• Rulers
• Line drawing
• Search and replace across files, search filtering and incremental search
• Bookmarks
• Paragraph reformat and word wrap
• Auto-save and optional backup files
• Intelligent language sensitive editing
• Autocorrection and Smartype finish words for you
• Smart code indenting, code templates and auto-completion
• Language templates and skeletons specified in simple text files
• Indent using tabs, spaces or virtual space
• Automatic case conversion, optionally when a symbol is typed
• Syntax highlighting using fonts styles, italic, bold etc
• Customisable headers and footers
• Print up to 20 multiple columns
• Line around page and between columns
• Set margins
• Optional line numbers
• Use any printer font
• Eject page on form feed.

The following languages are supported:

• Ada
• Assembler
• Basic
• C/C++
• Cicode
• Clipper and now XBase++
• COBOL
• Dataflex
• dBase
• DOS Batch files
• Eiffel
• Modula 2
• FORTRAN 77 and 90
• FoxPro
• HTML
• Java
• Lisp
• Paradox
• Pascal
• PL/I
• Progress
• Prolog
• Forth
• Rexx
• Smalltalk
• SQL
• VHDL
• Windows INI file format
• 31 pre-defined languages currently supported
• Simple ASCII text file format for user modification, extension or customisation of word lists and templates

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ED for Windows - System Requirements

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000 or XP
• Pentium III, 400Mhz minimum
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or later for NT4
• 128 MB RAM
• 5-10 MB available hard disk space.