Multi-Edit

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Multi-Edit is a commercial

Multi-Edit was originally written in Pascal and was built to run in MS-DOS and has since been ported to Windows. The most recent release is dated from 2008. No compatibility information for Windows versions after Windows 7 is available from the product's website.

HTML editing features include:^[2]

• Integration with
  CSE HTML Validator
  for offline HTML, XHTML and CSS checking
• HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular functions and HTML tags
• Customization of languages, templates, menus, toolbars and the UI with its CMac macro language

Multi-Edit is a shareware product. It can be evaluated for free for 30 days, after which the user must purchase a license to continue using the software.

Note: As of August 2022, the Multi-Edit website, including all of the forums, is off-line and not accessible.

Features

Multi-Edit also has the following features:

• Open and edit large files
• Column/Stream/Line (block) mode editing
• Regular expression find and replace
• Find/Replace in Files
• Extensible code highlighting, with 'wordfiles' already available for many languages
• Code collapsing and hierarchical function listing
• Beautify and reformat source code
• Smart templates for code completion
• Hex viewing
• File/data sorting
• Project management
• Sessions
• Bookmarking
• Automation via macros and scripts
• Integrated file comparison
• Includes BCDiffer a built-in File Compare Utility created by
  Scooter Software

History

Multi-Edit was developed by Todd M. Johnson as a source code editor, at a time when the only other popular source code editor for MS-DOS was Brief.^[3] As a DOS editor it offered features such as user-configurable syntax highlighting for language-specific color coding of keywords and symbols.^[4] Even after the appearance of integrated development environments in the mid-1990s, it remained popular for features such as its macro language, easy customization, and multiple language support.^[5] As of 2011, it was one of the few surviving editors from the 1990s era when text editors were regarded as indispensable programming tools.^[6]

See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors

References