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The Ultimate Programming Editor

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From: Tom Carstensen
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1988 23:22
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Subject: The Ultimate Programming Editor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Keywords: editor text programming

'Preditor', a programming editor, will be commercially available
(released) in January of 1989.  A DEMO of this program will be uploaded
to various bulletin boards (included here) in 1 month.

The main 'features' of Preditor are:

    * True Rectangular Editing (Copy/Cut/Paste rectangular blocks of text)
    * Collapse by selection
    * Collapse by indentation
    * Unlimited Undo/Redo
    * Supports tags (like UNIX ctags)
    * Markers (ala MPW)
    * Understands 6 programming languages (extendable)
        * Bolds reserved words
        * Understands the comment delemiters
          for each language
        * Use any combination of suffix filters (ie: .c)
          to filter files
    * Each window is splittable
    * 'Grep' like pattern searching
    * Search & Open multiple files at a time
    * Autosave
    * Supports background operations in Multifinder (searching, 
      tab conversion, etc)
    * Uses MPW info on MPW text files (marks, window position,
      and selection info)
    * Fully user configurable
    * Excellent window management w/ Multifinder
    * Plus . . checks/matches brackets, find impossible 
      characters, and all that kind of good stuff.
      
    - Macros capability will be available in the subsequent
      release in March 1989

This program will run on any Macintosh, execpt the Mac 128K.
More information if available upon request.
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From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: The Ultimate Programming Editor
Keywords: editor text programming
Message-ID: <1988Oct19.162258.5137@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 23:22:56 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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