ED for Windows

  • SKU: ED

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.

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