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FED - a folding text editor

Copyright © 1994-2004 Shawn Hargreaves
Copyright © 2006-2007 Robert Riebisch
[Under GNU General Public License]

Contents

• Why another FED page?
• Description
• Screenshots
• System requirements
• Version history
• Downloads

Why another FED page?

Right after releasing FED version 2.23 in November 2006, I (Robert Riebisch) noticed an annoying bug in FED's 'makehelp' utility. It took quite some time, but in early February 2007 I prepared a small patch to correct this problem. Until April 2007 I sent my patch to FED's original author ( Shawn Hargreaves) a dozen times for confirmation, but never received any feedback. I see Mr. Hargreaves active in his blog, so I assume, he lost interest in further development and put my mails to trash.

Currently you will find DOS binaries here only, because I do not do much Windows programming. If anyone wishes to contribute a new Win32 binary, please contact me!

Description

FED is a folding text editor for MS-DOS, Linux, and Windows. It features:

• fast and intuitive user interface.
• color syntax highlighting.
• can fold blocks of text out of sight, based on code indentation.
• multiple levels of undo and redo.
• incremental 'as you type' searching.
• search/replace through multiple files.
• browse function to quickly find all references to a symbol.
• automatic compiler error location.
• context-sensitive access to external help systems.
• flexible wordwrap, which correctly handles indented blocks of text.
• block indent/unindent.
• binary and hex editing modes for hacking executable and data files.
• record/playback keystroke macros.
• built in Tetris game and screensaver.
• configuration options to alter key bindings, screen colors, etc.

Screenshots

Screenshot #1: default 25-line text mode, menu and scroll bars enabled (version 2.24).

Screenshot #2: 50-line text mode, no menu or scroll bar (default), syntax highlighting for C language (version 2.24).

Screenshot #3: Pascal language syntax highlighting using a blue-green color scheme (version 2.24).

System requirements

• Intel i80386 microprocessor (or compatibles)
• IBM VGA graphics card (or compatibles)
• Microsoft MS-DOS 3.3 (or compatibles)

Version history

2.24

• Fixed '#...' handling in 'makehelp' utility.

2.23

• Fixed DJGPP compile issue with function pch().

2.22

• Proper rendering for box UI characters in the Windows version.
• Fixed multiprocessor thread race condition in the Windows version.
• File open checks FED_INCLUDE as well as INCLUDE in the environment.
• Correct syntax highlighting for 1.0f floating point constants.
• realtabs option overrides tab mode per file extension.

2.21

• Drag and drop support in the Windows version.

2.2

• Windows port.
• Tab size can be set differently for each file extension in fed.syn.

Downloads

Blue-green color scheme: blugreen.zip (0.4 Kbytes)
Version 2.24: binaries (127.6 Kbytes), sources (137.6 Kbytes)

Page last modified on February 10, 2008.
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