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I USED TO install it on all of my PC computers. Now, I use PSPAd?. Check it out! --RonPerrellaAuther died? |
I USED TO install it on all of my PC computers. Now, I use PSPad. Check it out! --RonPerrellaAuthor died? |
As of SEP 2008, paypal still accepts payments for crimsonware@yahoo.com, so someone may be collecting money for the use of the program. Perhaps that is what still pays for the website and the domain costs? --Zonker Harris |
The Crimson text editor is a freeware editor for MicrosoftWindows.
Author: Ingyu Kang Homepage: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Family: MicrosoftWindowsEditors License: Freeware Platform: Windows
It has medium-end features like:
No longer developed or maintained. See discussion below screenshot.
Screenshot:
Development was a one-man effort by Ingyu Kang. Although the support mailing list is still active, development has stopped recently (Most recent 3.70 Release was back in September 2004). Ingyu Kang was unreachable for a long time and the source code was not available. But on December 30, 2006 he released the source code for Crimson Editor as "open source".
The source zip file is reachable from the download page of the Crimson Editor website, and compiles under Visual Studio 6 (C++). The licensing terms are unknown, and no mention of it appears in the source; The binary download links says "please distribute it to your friends without any modification", which no longer makes sense if the software is supposed to be open source. Its not clear whether any developers are intending to re-establish a coordinated development project working from the released crimson code.
Before the release of the source code, users (paricularly Peter Spicer) [started an initiative] to recreate something similar to crimson editor, as an open source project named "[emerald editor]" (nothing created yet)
It could use a real MacroLanguage to give it some umph!
I USED TO install it on all of my PC computers. Now, I use PSPad. Check it out! --RonPerrella
Ingyu Kang died on 16 Dec. 2005. Before his death, he passed on the source code to a friend named Jacky, who thoughtlessly decided to reformat the hard drive. He says, "it slipped my mind about the [Crimson Editor] sources stored on my PC." What, no backup files either?
He concludes, "I'm really sorry for this. So I strongly suggest you start using MS FrontPage? from now on as CE is as dead as a dead goat." Full details on the [CE message forum]. (EricPement)
The last public distribution of CrimsonEditor is available from the EmeraldEditor site.
As of SEP 2008, paypal still accepts payments for crimsonware@yahoo.com, so someone may be collecting money for the use of the program. Perhaps that is what still pays for the website and the domain costs?
--Zonker Harris