Edt Text Editor / News: Recent posts

Version 1.9 adds a check against accidently attempting to edit a directory. It adds the ability to start an HTML file by inserting the HTML tags for header and page-body, when you type "begin html" at the line-prompt. A makefile and Sun keyboard map were also added.

An ability was added to EDT to accept 'wq', 'wq!', 'q!' at the editor's line-prompt. The 'wq' command is like 'exit' or 'ex', but does not save .bak file. The trailing '!' causes Edt to not ask if you really want to quit, when there were changes.

The ability to accept 'begin cprog', 'begin c++prog', and 'begin javaprog' commands was added. These commands cause the editor to insert an outer program shell, of the selected language, into the edit buffer, which is handy for starting new programs.... read more

Starting with version 1.7, you can edit gzip compressed files directly. Edt now recognizes the *.gz file suffix, and will automatically (temporarily) decompress gzip'd files for editing. It re-zips when you exit or quit the edit session. This is convenient if you keep larger or older files compressed. Without this feature, you would need to manually decompress the file before editing, and then remember to re-compress it afterward. Now this process is transparent, and it encourages keeping more files compressed on disk.... read more

The initial Sourceforge release of simple Edt text-editor emulator was updated with several code clean-ups. Now supports opening to line number following file-name and colon, as occurs with compiler warning or error messages.