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 Cross-platform programmer's editor written in TclTk

 Author:   Vince Darley 
 Homepage: http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/Alphatk.html (dead link)
 Family:   TclTkEditorFamily
 Platform: TclTk
 License:  Shareware

Cross-platform - use the same editor on Windows, Unix and MacOS? X.
Very extensible and configurable - has a real (open source) language as a macro language
Multi-modal
Mode-specific syntax colouring, configurable with built in support for C/C++, HTML, Java, Tcl, Perl and 40 other modes.
Exceptionally powerful modes for HTML/CSS, LaTeX/BibTeX?, Perl, Matlab, C++, Java, Tcl and Metafont
Some 40 others modes for TIP, Python, S+, R, Scheme, Igor, Postscript, Fortran, Gnuplot, Javascript, Ada, Caml, ChangeLog?, Clan, Lisp, Modula2, email, make, Maple, Metafont, ObjectiveC?, C#, Pascal, SAS, Scilab, Applescript, Setext, SPSS, Stata, SQL, Verilog, VB, XML... with syntax colouring for all of these modes.
File sets - organise your files and deal with sets independently, including operations like printing, ftp-mirroring, version control, archiving, etc.
Active user community writing additional modes, menus and other plugins, (e.g. here)
Largely open source, and easily customizable.
Configurable keyboard mapping
Contains helpers so you can easily add yet more modes!
Completely scriptable
Templates
Available either as a set of scripts or as a single standalone executable (or 'starkit')
Support for unlimited variety of plugins
Tearoff menus for easy access.
Automatic backup of files
Multi-byte (IME) Support

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