The SemWare Editor Professional

The SemWare Editor Professional (TSE Pro for DOS) has been designed for the professional programmer. It includes a macro programming language that allows you to tap into the editor itself to extend the editor's features and to simplify complex editing tasks. Its virtual memory capacity allows you to edit very large files. And its configuration facilities allow you to customize many facets of the editor's behavior.

The SemWare Editor Professional/32 (Text Mode) for Windows 95/98/NT

The SemWare Editor Professional/32 (TSE Pro/32) is a text (console) mode application for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. It has been designed for the professional programmer. It includes a macro programming language that allows you to tap into the editor itself to extend the editor's features and to simplify complex editing tasks. Its virtual memory capacity allows you to edit very large files. And its configuration facilities allow you to customize many facets of the editor's behavior.

Feature List

Productivity aids

• Color syntax highlighting

customizable for any programming language, or even text files

configurable syntax, keywords, colors

• Pull-down Menus showing key assignments
• Context-sensitive Help
• Pop-up file directory pick list
• Ability to save/restore editing sessions, including files, windows, cursor positions, blocks, history, recently-edited files
• Can emulate other editors/word processors
• Pop-up history windows
• Built-in mouse support
• Option to resize your screen to whatever columns/rows Windows allows (for example, 34 rows by 96 columns)

Macro programming language

• Embedded programming language for extensive customization
• Modern-style syntax
• Offers automatic start-up macro
• Features procedures with parameter passing, local and global variables
• 400+ commands provide access to editor, screen, user-interface, system functions
• Macro capacity that allows you to create macro files up to 64k in size, and to load up to 60 macro files in a session
• 30,000+ lines of macro source included
• Includes macro language debugger

Configurability

• Customizable pull-down menus and menu bars allow you to create your own menus
• Reassignable keys
• Menu-driven customization facility that allows changing of editing preferences
• Configurable user interface and color settings
• Programmable mouse
• Further extension of the editor by giving you access to DLLs

Printing options

• Optional printing of line numbers
• Single-, double-, and triple-spaced printing
• Top, bottom, left and right margins
• Configurable printer device, initialization string
• Ability to pause between pages
• Support for page numbers, headers and footers
• Option to print selected pages

Block operations

• Copy or paste to/from Windows Clipboard
• Support for CUA-style (shift-cursor-key) block marking
• Support for line, column, character blocks
• Mark word or paragraph
• Case-change feature - upper, lower, flip, capitalize
• Options to move, copy, delete, cut, append, overlay, print, save, fill, reformat, in/outdent, unindent, quote/comment
• Ability to sum a column of numbers

File-handling features

• Virtual memory support that allows editing of files up to the maximum memory that Windows can allocate on your system
• Simultaneous editing of multiple (up to thousands of) files
• Handling of files with long filenames, and using UNC network paths
• Support for line lengths to 8176 characters
• Multiple horizontal and vertical windows for viewing files, with synchronized scrolling option
• Configurable option to load files matching a wildcard specification
• Default extensions for loading files
• Option to save all files
• Filename-completion option available at any prompt requesting a filename
• Ability to edit files in hex and binary modes
• Configurable file-end terminator
• Configurable line-end terminator (allows editing of UNIX/MAC files)
• Where-is capability to search specified drives for a file

File manager

• Numerous commands available including open, move, copy, delete, rename, run, print, touch, change file attributes, manipulate archives
• Execute commands on tagged files
• Sort by filename, extension, size, date/time, attribute

Editing/formatting options

• Deletion buffer to restore previously deleted text
• Line/box drawing mode
• Default ClipBoard, plus multiple user-created named ClipBoards - cut, copy, append, paste, paste over
• Various tab types - fixed, variable, hard, smart
• Indenting and formatting commands
• Configurable WordSet (facilitates word-oriented movement and deletion)
• Entab and detab

Word-processing features

• Integrated Spell Checker
• Wordwrap and paragraph-reformat options (including automatic wordwrap)
• Options to center, shift, left/right-justify text
• Configurable date and time formats - international formats supported
• Left and right margins
• Count number of words in block or file

Program development support

• "Smart" indenting mode for various programming languages
• Locate matching braces and parentheses
• Command-line option for jumping to specific line/column when loading a file
• Compile from within editor using built-in multi-language compiler support
• Template editing
• Mark a program function as a block
• List all functions in the current file
• Go to the next or previous function
• Ability to launch the editor either from the command line without creating another window, or from an icon on the Windows desktop or Start menu

Search and replace capability

• Search and replace across all open files
• Regular expression (wildcard) operators
• Incremental search
• Option to list all occurrences of a string
• Count occurrences of a string
• Limit search or replace to a marked block

Numerous other features

• Pop-up ASCII chart (with character paste feature)
• Sort capability - ascending/descending, case sensitive/insensitive
• Command prompts that offer:

pop-up history windows

filename completion

copy and paste to/from prompts

reassignable keys

• Keyboard macro facility
• Bookmarks: set, view, next, previous
• Optional cursor-line highlighting
• Integer calculator
• Compare two files, showing differences