ME - Martin's System Editor 1.00 beta 12, October 2016
Freeware for Windows, OS/2 and eCS, Linux and MacOSX
www.hypermake.com
ME is a simple GTK2-based text editor with the following properties:
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always showing the current line (paragraph) and column, even word wrap is on
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to go to a specific position, line and column prompt is editable
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easy switching between UTF8, Windows and IBM codepage; auto recognition of correct
codepage in foreign languages
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supports DOS/Windows, MAC and Unix CR coding
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reads (but not writes) MS DOC files
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Column blocks and persistent blocks
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optional extensive Wordstar keymapping
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"locate string" editfield let you highlight and find expressions
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entering a wildcard like "*.txt" let you skip back and forward to all files matching
the wildcard expression
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optional showing lines with Hard Return and Soft Return
in the rightmost column
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multi undo
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a lot of settings influencing the "feeling" of the editor (e.g. transient/persistent
blocks)
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nearly no file size limit (up to 300 MB works)
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supports workgroups (one person has write access, the others
can only read)
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optional auto actualization of editor content if the file has been updated by another
program
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last but not least, very fast and stable, also with big text files.
Then I've written another Freeware editor: WSedit. WSedit
has got nearly all functionality of ME, but has got more Wordstar (DOS) and more
wordprocessing properties. In addition to ASCII text files, WSedit reads and
writes Wordstar(DOS) files.
WSedit-only features:
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reading WS4 and WS5-WS7, writing WS4
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detail behaviour appropriate to WS4-7
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holding different user settings dependent on the file extension of the text file
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paragraph formatting with soft characters ("snow characters") like Wordstar
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contents tree in a separate window like a directory tree to navigate in large documents
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command highlightning (e.g. for HTML files)
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undo slider window
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highlightning spell-checking function where you can let analyse your own already
spell-checked files to get a personal dictionary
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translation functionality if you download separate translation files
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Macro recorder for defining Function keys.
ME-only features:
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printing
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stdin pipes into editor - a substitute for MORE
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easy switching between codepages.
The usage of ME free, that means you can use it without paying money, but it has
a commitment: Please report bugs to Martin at hypermake.de if you find any!
The editor kernel of ME is commonly used by four programs: ME, WSedit, Hypermake
(a tagged ASCII to HTML/Winhelp/IBM Help converter) and Textbuch, a german accounting
(double-entry bookkeeping) program. Fixing a bug in the editor kernel of ME
automatically fixes this bug in the other programs.