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Freeware MS-DOS editor based on Borland's Turbo Editor Toolkit
Author: Brian Foley, TurboPower Software
Download: https://sites.google.com/site/texteditors/Home/files/tpe34.zip
Family: MsDosEditors WordStarFamily
Platform: MS-DOS
License: Freeware
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"TPE is a programmer's editor that we at TurboPower Software developed for our own use. TPE was created initially by fusing together parts of two editors in Borland's now defunct Editor Toolbox: FirstEd and MicroStar. Over time, however, TPE has evolved into a fairly distinctive program. The basic architecture remains largely the same, but the list of features has changed
substantially.
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Since the list of features in TPE is indeed long, we'll just hit on some of the highlights here:
- Virtual memory management (optional) allows editing of files larger than will fit into memory
- Up to eight zoomable and resizable windows for editing multiple files or different parts of a single file
- Swapping exec function--TPE uses only 4K of memory while executing DOS commands or other programs
- Hotkey access to compilers (up to 5), assembler, and debugger
- Recognizes compiler errors generated by Turbo Pascal (TPC, TPCX, TPCW), Turbo Assembler (TASM), Macro Assembler (MASM), and Borland C++ (BCC,BCCX) and moves cursor to position of the error
- Maintains list of 20 most recently edited files and allows easy retrieval of them
- Support for EGA 43-line, VGA 50-line, and user-defined text modes
- Synchronized scrolling option for comparing the contents of two windows
- Cut and paste between windows
- WordStar-compatible command structure
- Fully configurable keyboard
- Word wrap, smart tabs, fixed tabs, autoindent mode
- Keyboard macro system, search-and-apply-macro command, ability to create self-repeating and self-aborting macros
- Text markers
- Undo command
- Four line-drawing modes
- Solid (block) cursor option
- Commands for indenting, aligning, and reformatting blocks of text
- Brace-matching commands for finding mismatched comment braces, parentheses, brackets, etc.
In comparison with the best known commercial programmer's editors, TPE really lacks only two things: 1) It does not have a full undo facility, just a simple undelete function, and 2) its macro system is fairly simplistic.
On the other hand, TPE has the three F's: it's Fast, Flexible, and Free."