WSedit and its little brother ME have got the following properties:
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reading and writing TXT files
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when working with an unformatted file, text is reformatted
if the window width is changed (word wrap)
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marking lines with Hard Return
and Soft Return in the rightmost column
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CUA key support (Windows key commands), Wordstar key support
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multi undo
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switching between different screen fonts (for the whole
document)
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nearly no file size limit (there seems to be a limit
at approximately 20 MB)
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reading Microsoft DOC files (text without formatting, read-only)
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supports workgroups (one person has write access, the others
can only read)
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last but not least, very fast and stable.
WSedit-only properties:
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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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TXT Import and Export (IBM and ISO codepage)
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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
In comparison to Wordstar (DOS), there's no 80 column limit
on the screen and long filenames are supported, of course.