FTE Text Editor

FTE is a free (licensed under the GNU GPL) text editor for developers. It is really powerful, yet very easy and intuitive to use.

Ports that can be compiled from the current source tree include OS/2, Win32 console, DOS, Linux console and an X port for many UNIX'es, including Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP, and Cygwin. An incomplete UNIX terminal port (using s-lang) is also available.

It can be built using GCC ports on all supported platforms, but other compilers are also supported on Win32 and OS/2

A few build levels are available.

20010819

This is the last fully-built set of binaries.

• fte-20010819-common.zip
  Common package, necessary with all other archives.
• fte-20010819-src.zip
  Source distribution.
• fte-20010819-os2-emx.zip
  EMX compiled OS/2 binaries. (requires EMX.DLL)
• fte-20010819-os2-vac.zip
  Visual Age C++ compiled OS/2 binaries
• fte-20010819-nt.zip
  MS Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP binaries
• fte-20010819-djgpp2.zip
  DJGPP compiled DOS binaries (requires DPMI server)
• fte-0.49.13-2.i386.rpm
  Linux/i386 compiled installable RPM (RPM 3 format) - includes common
• fte-0.49.13-2.src.rpm
  Source RPM (RPM 3 format) - includes common

20020318

This is the snapshot before some very major changes. You need to compile this yourself.

• fte-20020318-common.zip
  Common package, necessary with all other archives.
• fte-20020318-src.zip
  Source distribution.

20020324

This is the snapshot after some very major changes. You need to compile this yourself. New features include internal CVS support, new colors, and many new commands.

• fte-20020324-common.zip
  Common package, necessary with all other archives.
• fte-20020324-src.zip
  Source distribution.

(The list is of course incomplete :)

• Syntax highlighting and syntax-aware autoindent for many languages / file formats, including C(++), Java, Perl, Sh, Pascal, SQL, Assembly, PHP, Python, REXX, Ada, Fortran, IDL, LinuxDoc, TeX, TeXInfo, HTML, diffs, emails and makefiles
• User-definable syntax highlighting using a configurable state machine
• Parenthesis matching
• Parsing of compiler output (jump to file/line of error, jump to prev/next error)
• Parsing of "grep" output (jump to file/line of match)
• Simple handling of several open files / directory views
• Several variations of the "copy'n'paste" mechanism (including "Copy-Append", "Paste column", "Paste line"
• Many Line transformation operations (split, join, center, toupper, tolower, togglecase, rot13, delete-to-end, ...)
• An ASCII table ("insert this funny char")
• Many block selection operations (mark stream/rectangle/line(s), insert stream/rectangle/line(s) from file, write selection to file, print selection)
• Operations on selections (toupper, tolower, rot13, user defined translates, indent entire block, sort, ...)
• Several navigation operations (search string, bookmark stack, goto line, goto matching parenthesis, go to next/prev similar word, ...)
• Search and replace optionally using regular expressions
• Folds, including "create by regexp", "create by routines", nested folds
• Interfacing to compiler/make, grep, shell, ispell
• Routine/Function list for several languages
• ... Many more

Last Change: 2002-03-26 12:35:02 UTC

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