Word Processing - Editors


Note: The difference between a Word Processor and a Text Editor is that Word
Processors, in general, make it easy to change fonts, justify text, underline,
italicize, etc., for which it embeds non-ASCII characters in the file, making
it unreadable and unprintable outside of the word processor (or compatible
utility). A Text Editor generally makes it easier to manipulate text (eg:
block moves) and does not support features which require embedding control
codes in the files. Text editors are preferable for editing text files in
which you do not want control codes, editing system files such as CONFIG.SYS,
and for working on programming source code files.


[AELITE]
ARIS Edit Lite 1.2 (Alexander Riedel;$20) is a general purpose text editor.It
provides a fast multi-window and multi-file editing environment. Features
include up to 10 editing windows, multi-megabyte file size, all line modes,
undo last 1000 text changes, line and rectangular block marking, selection box
for file loading, auto word search,read-only editing mode, up to 10 bookmarks,
bracket matching, window selection list, interactive editor configuration, and
regular expression search.

[ASM_ED]
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.

[AURORA]
The Aurora Editor 1.1 (Aurora Terra, reg. fee: $49) is a text editor with
mouse support, object oriented macro language, user definable menus, binary
editing, file scan, bookmarks and more. (400k)

[BE310A]
Bingo Programmer's Editor 3.10a (Schanck, Christopher R.S. ASP; $40-$75) 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.

[BOXER60A]
Boxer 6.0a (Boxer Software, ASP; $39-$54) is a full-featured text editor.
Features include 512-level undo command; mouse support; unlimited files and
windows; 26 user definable keystroke macros; the ability to swap to EMS or
disk for DOS; global/selective search and replace; word processing support;
extensive block operations such as copy, append, and paste; the ability to
locate lost files; graphic drawing mode for boxes and frames; pop-up ASCII
chart; programmer's calculator; find mating parenthetical characters;
keystroke multiply; typewriter style tab stops; automatic indent option;
visible white space mode; date, time and calendar displays; DESQview support;
26 clipboard areas; multi-level undo; CUA compliant menus; on-line help; and
much more. Requires 384K and 400K+ of disk space.

[CB266A, CB266B]
Captain Blackbeard (Powers, James K.; $25) is a multi-featured programmer's
text editor. It includes an integrated software development environment.
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.

[CEPE]
Code Editor & Programming Environment (Alvira, Jose Rodriguez; $25) 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.

[CSE]
CSE 1.70 (Applegate, J. R.; $0) is a text editor that lets you assign editing
and program function commands to any key. Up to five different files can be
held in memory at the same time and text transferred between them. Although
these features are often found only in large text editors, CSE takes only 12k
of disk space. The look of CSE is somewhat similar to Kedit, Personal Editor
and other popular editors, making it a good small substitute for those larger
editors when disk space is at a premium.

[E88]
E88 (Wooten, Emery D. Jr. ASP; $25) is a small, fast, easy to use text editor.
Features include: easy customization, additional block operations (Delete,
Move, Copy, Print and Disk Dump are all supported), directory display, and
support for the entire IBM character set. Other features include a program to
create a customized copy of E88, full support for block operations, two search
options, a merge command, several start-up switches, limited printer control
from the keyboard, full IBM character set support, right margin setting,
support for directory searching and display capability both from within the
program and from the title screen, and more.

[EDED]
Eded (Gillott, E. C.; $?) is a fully featured, fast, easy-to-use text
processor. Its flexibility and extensive cursor movement facilities make it
ideal for program editing, while its automatic word wrap and instant screen
updating make it ideal for general word processing.

[EDIT]
Edit (Fox, John D.; $0) is a fast and easy full screen editor. Features
include wordwrap, paragraph reformat, find and replace, delete word, delete
line, undo most recent deletion, cut and paste, enter character as ASCII, load
text block from disk, write text block to disk, and only takes 18k of disk
space. EDIT is meant for little jobs but will handle files over 100k (limited
by memory).

[EDTGRK]
EdtGreek (Wright, Edward L.; $10) is a graphics-based (WYSIWYG) word processor
that supports superscripts, subscripts, and Greek characters and scientific
symbols. It will also do (scientific) calculations. It requires an Epson
compatible printer. (Don't forget to specify line spacing, per the docs.)

[EDWIN1]
Edwin 1.5 (Kim Kokkonen, reg. fee: $0) is a multi-windowed programmer's
editor. Features include block moves between windows, undeletion, Pascal
structure editing, macro record and playback, DOS invocation from the editor,
and file size limited only by available RAM.

[EEDIT]
Easiest Editor 2.4 (Kihlken, Tom; $20) is a fast and easy text editor that
lets you edit multiple files, including cut-and-paste between files, search
and replace, undo mistakes, access DOS, and more. It is written in assembler
(source not included) and it can run under Windows and Desqview.

[ED_DC]
ED (Coon, Don; $0) is a tiny editor that contains most features needed to
write letters, doc files etc. It will allow you to cut and paste, load, save
and print most files. At only 2k in size, ED is ideal for use with laptops and
RAM disks.

[EJ]
Encrypted Journal 1.0 (Sitting Duck Software; $10) is a text editor that
automatically encrypts your file when saving and decrypts it when loading.
This is an interesting concept, although the editor itself is very crude and
limited to eight pages of text. Nevertheless, this could be handy for certain
types of small files, such as a list of credit card numbers, your love
letters, etc., which you should encrypt but probably never do.

[ET]
Editing Tools 2.2 (Jou, Jiann Ph.D.; $25) is a full-screen multifile text
editor with a multidirectory DOS shell. With the editor, you can easily edit
multiple files. The DOS Shell, on the other hand, is an intelligent interface
between DOS and the text editor. With it you may change drive or directory,
execute a DOS command, or select a file to edit, or a program to execute
without worrying about paths.

[ETA]
Editeur de Texte 1.7 (Dupin, Bernard; $25) is a programmer's editor optimized
for speed. 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.

[EW]
Easy Write 1.2 (Lachance, Guy and Roper, Tee and Babcock, Chris; $0) is a
public domain text editor with Pascal source code.

[FASTWRD]
fastword GOLD 2.0 (jwh: SoftWare ASP; $24) is a very attractive DOS text/batch
file editor. It operates in VGA graphics mode and includes full
point-and-click mouse support. It can edit files up to 666 lines up to 255
characters long. Other features include cut and paste operations, printing of
all or a portion of a file, execution of DOS or batch files from within the
editor, and more. Requires 512K.

[FREEMACS]
Freemacs (Stallman, Richard M. and Nelson, Russell N.; $0) 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.

[HEXEDT]
heXEdit 2.0 (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.

[M10]
M 1.0 (Greg Gadbois, reg. fee: $25-35) is an emacs style text editor. It
features infinite undo and redo functions, global search and replace, word
wrap, and more.

[MEGASTAR]
Mega-Star (Schmitt Software; $50) is designed to serve for programmers to use
for both writing code and writing documentation. Some of its features include
macros, pull-down menus with on-screen help, user definable Quick Keys, six
windows that can be resized and zoomed, table-of-contents and index creators,
style sheets, book markers, and more.

[NANOEDT]
NanoEdit 1.5 (Doxa, Christo Pasa; $25) is a very small, fast, no-frills text
editor. In our article on DOS 5, this is the kind of program we suggested that
Microsoft should have used in place of their 250k editor.

[PAS_ED]
Pas-Ed (Hedco, Inc.; $25) is a programmer's editor created to streamline the
process of editing, compiling, debugging, and running programs written in
Turbo Pascal. It can be used for editing any text files, but it is optimized
for TP. Features: edit up to 21 files in DOS + EMS memory; 43/50-line modes
supported on EGA/VGA; automatic TPC.CFG compiler configuration file generation
based on menu selections; EMS or disk swapping during DOS shells and compile,
debug and run sessions, which frees up all but 6.4k of DOS memory; automatic
error locating, including /F Find Error; automatic restoration of the previous
setup at startup; keyboard macros with adjustable playback delay; inter-file
block copy and move of text; find and replace using text from a marked block;
jump to a specific file or line number; 10 placemarkers that operate within
and between files; pop-up ASCII character table; and a pop-up extended key
code table.

[PE403]
pE - The "perfect" Editor 4.03 (Just Excellent Software, Inc., reg. fee: $42)
is a text editor with over 160 functions, including the ability to read and
convert all major word processing formats.

[PED]
PED 3.0 (Pliable Products; $23) is an easy-to-use text editor that can handle
files of up to 8 meg. Global search and replace allows you to replace words in
files without having to load, edit and save them manually. Works in EGA 35 and
43 line modes.

[PEDIT]
pEDIT 1.1 (Muench, T.G. ASP; $33-$48) is a text editor capable of editing
multiple files at the same time. It features split screen editing, multiple
buffers, auto-indent, a DOS shell, file pick lists, disk macros, and wild card
search. It also includes some word processing features such as margins, block
functions, word wrap, and case change. Additional features include global
search of all buffers, multi-key commands, WordStar and Emacs emulations,
mouse support, a tutorial, the ability to edit up to 16 files at once, support
for 50-line VGA text mode, and more. Maximum line length is 32k characters.
Requires 384K of memory and 720K of disk space.

[PRO_ED]
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.

[PROWRT]
Prowriter 5.0 (MicroByte Software; $25) is a word processor that can use a
small screen font to allow you to display and edit files with up to 128
characters per line on screen and up to 50 lines on screen (EGA, VGA, and
CGA). Other features include mouse support, margin justification, EMS support,
and graphics character support; and the ability to use any text mode supported
by your video card for any number of rows by columns up to 132 characters wide
(eg: 80x60,132x28,132x44). A powerful execution facility is provided that uses
all available memory for executing even large programs or batch files with
text loaded. Other features include automatic detection of EGA/43 VGA/50 row
text modes, and an execution pick-list for easy selection of the last six
programs run.

[QEDIT3]
Qedit Advanced 3.0 (SemWare ASP; $58) is a very popular, small, fast text
editor. Qedit will edit files in size up to the maximum amount of system
memory (excluding extended and expanded memory). This allows movement through
the file to be very fast, yet you are still able to edit very large files (up
to about 580k maximum). Qedit allows you to have as many different files open
for editing as memory permits. Changing files and copying between files is
quick and easy. Screen splitting lets you see two files at once. Qedit lets
you redefine the command keys to your own taste. Qedit also lets you have up
to 99 "scratch" buffers for the temporary storing of data, in addition to the
usual ways of directly copying blocks of text between files or within a file.
Other features: delete character blocks as well as line blocks; word-wrap and
paragraph reformat; recover deleted lines and blocks; keyboard macros; load
multiple files from the DOS command line as well as from within the editor;
move or copy blocks directly between files; up to eight windows; and optional
pull-down menus. Swap to Disk/EMS for DOS/Shell commands, set top and bottom
print margins, Centerline command, delete, print, and write Column blocks,
restrict Find/Replace to a marked block, conditional logic for macro language,
Fillblock command, Shift entire block using TabLt and TabRt keys, Repeat a
command n times or until EOF, and additional C mode extensions. Support is
provided for larger than normal (80x25) screens, up to 200 columns and 100
rows.

[QEXTRA]
QEXTRA (Gene Catalano; $0) is a set of files containing information that
teaches you how to incorporate printer codes, word-processing format features,
and extended ASCII codes (including graphics capabilities) into QEDIT. Even if
you don't use QEDIT, the more than 200k of articles will teach you important
aspects of using word processors and text editors, and how to have more power
over your printer's capabilities and is applicable to most word processors and

[QEDITUTL]
Qedit Utilities includes the following programs to be used with Qedit: QCOMP
1.01 (QuickCompiler; Mike Smedley; $0) will make compiling source code
programs from QEdit a lot easier. It allows you to have an editing key which
when pressed will compile your source code file, whatever the extension, and
bring up the errors in a QEdit window. QED2BOX (Pete Petit; $0) are
box-drawing macros for Qedit. QINTMAC 1.0 (Internal Macros For QEDIT 2.06B;
Kirk Bubul; $0) is a set of macros that aid in the gathering up of
like-subject messages and appending them into a scratch buffer called "YIN"
for later relocation elsewhere in the program. QMAC 1.1A (Copyright 1988 Sammy
Mitchell and Karl Brendel; $0) translates macros from QEDIT's binary format
file to a text file for easy macro editing, after which it will translate the
text back to binary. QMAC allows appending to or overwriting existing files,
making it easy to add new macros to existing files. QMAC's text file format
allows comments, permitting documentation of the macros within their source
file.

[QED_AMAC]
AMac (Hogshead, Tom; $0) contains various QEdit macros. There are macros to
center lines, paragraphs, and documents, allow the user to select files from a
list, and paginate documents. Also inlcluded is the ability to find multiple
search text in current file using FGREP or DOS's FIND, macros to spell check
with ShareSpell, a macro to toggle backups off, a modified right justify
macro, commenting and un-commenting macros, search and replace within Zip
files macros, and bookmark macros to jump to a position in a file and across
files. These files unarchive to over 600K.

[SAIL]
Sail (Software Creations; $55) is a window-oriented text editor that lets you
cut and paste between files and view more than one file on the screen.

[SLED]
Sled (Wilmott, Sam; $15) is a small, fast text editor. It can read and write a
variety of file formats and is useful as file a conversion utility. Many files
can be edited at once, limited only by available memory.

[SOAPBOX]
SoapBox Writer 1.5b (SoapBox Software; $30) is a small word processing program
that will run on a basic 256k machine. It will create WordStar compatible or
straight text files.

[SOFTKEY]
Softkey Editor (Weidman, Henry; $20) is an easy-to-use text editor with many
advanced features: use of the extended ASCII character set; auto-indent; Block
copy, delete, move and write; calendar; DOS file management; hex, decimal
calculator; multiple files with up to 9 file windows; search and replace; EGA
43-line support; VGA 50-line support; 254 columns; 7500+ lines; run programs
(such as compilers) concurrently; user-defined macros, a macro repeat feature
and more.

[SG3]
Super Graph 3 (DCS Systems; $?) is a word processor which lets you easily
enter all of the 256 ASCII characters available. You can load up to 10
different screens at once, and easily switch between them.

[TECHEDIT]
Technical Editor (Superior Soft, ASP; $40) is a fast, full featured
programmers' editor. You have the ability to edit any size file using virtual
memory and edit in multiple screens, each with up to 16 windows. Some other
noted features include the ability to undo the last 1000 text changes,
keyboard re-definition, binary and read-only editing modes, OS environment,
keyboard macros, regular expression search and replace, and more.

[TEXTED]
Text Editor 2.5 (Haluska, John; $0) is a full-screen text editor which uses
commands similar to those used in WordStar. You can edit files as large as
available memory, and pop-up help is available. Other features include word
wrap, DOS shelling, insert, delete, split, join, block commands, and more. You
can print a file/block to LPT1-LPT3, enter any ASCII code, find/replace a
phrase, and set left/right margins and page length.

[TINYWRD]
TinyWord 2.0 (Loys Software Development; $1) is a text file editor requiring
just 6k, making it ideal for laptops, etc. It provides a full range of
capabilities while at the same time being fast and very easy to use. Some
features include full cursor controls, on-screen help, block commands, search
and replace, auto-indent, and WordStar compatibility. Limitations are that
lines can only be up to 80 characters long and that you must have enough free
space on disk before saving or the changes will be lost, although the last
version of the file should still be saved in a BAK file. The editor is
accompanied by another tiny program, an 8k text file printing utility that
will let you control the left margin and the number of lines per page, will
let you add page numbers, and will optionally double-space text.

[UEDIT20]
The Ultimate Editor 1.5 (Patrick R. Rygiel, reg. fee: $30) is a full screen
editor. It includes a DOS Shell and full file directory listings. It also runs
batch files, compiles source code from inside the editor, and links your
compiled programs.

[VDE]
Video Display Editor 1.72 (Meyer, Eric; $35) is a fast, powerful,
WordStar-compatible text editor. Commands can be entered from a menu bar or
with WordStar compatible keystrokes. Features include a proportional spacing
mode, keyboard macro recording, MenuBar mode; the ability to edit eight files
at once; a command for proportional print; Autosave to automatically save your
work at specified intervals; simultaneous windows scrolling; the ability to
align the platen for printing on various kinds of forms; support for the file
format of MS Word 5; an envelope printer; a wide range of screen sizes (from
17 to 57 lines); an integrated spell checker; and much more. Support is also
provided for UltraVision, the HP95LX palmtop, and the Tandy keyboard.

[VDE_BC]
VDE_BC (Keefe, Ed; $0) is a set of VDE macros to let you write characters
three lines high and create interesting borders. Requires Video Display Editor
from \WORDS\DOS\WP_ED directory on this CD.

[VDE_MC]
VDE Macro Compiler 1.11 (Slawson, Evan; $0) converts VDE macro files to and
from editable text files. This version of the compiler works only with VDE
versions that use the number 1.53 in their macro file headers (including
versions 1.53, 1.54, 1.55, 1.6 and 1.61).

[VDE_QRF]
VDE_Qrf ($0) is a quick-reference guide to Eric Meyer's Video Display Editor.

[VMAC]
VMac 1.11 (Richard Cowell; $0) is a macro compiler for Eric Meyer's VDE
1.531.65 and 1.70+. It converts VDE macro files into text files and vice
versa.

[WP_LITE]
WP_Lite (Keefe, Ed; $0) makes VDE look and feel more like Word Perfect.

[VI]
VI 1.9a (Nim, Sue Doe; $0) is a subset of the editor for the Berkeley Unix
operating system.

[WE30]
We 3.0 (Willow Creek Software, reg. fee: $49) is a programmer's editor which
provides text entry and editing, auto indenting and {} brace pair insertion
for C/C++ source formatting, cut and paste features, configurable keyboard
interface, and more.

[WED]
WED (Washington Computer Corp.; $30-$45) 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) 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.

[XED]
XED has three modes of operation as an editor: TYPE mode, only the text of the
file appears on the screen. EDIT mode, a five character control area appears
on each line. DRAW mode, the graphical character set is enabled.

[ZZEDIT]
ZZ Edit 1.0 (Scott McPherson, reg. fee: $0) is a small, simple editor for use
on a floppy-based laptop. It can be used to edit batch files, memos, notes,
etc.

[ZURI]
Zuri is an editor which has the ability to display lines of 225 characters by
wrapping over as many as 3 screen lines.

[ESUE3]
Universal Editor 2.1 (Erhard Schreck; $any) will edit ASCII and binary files
of unlimited size, perform string searches, do conversions from EBDIC to ASCII
and more.