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VDE - WordStar clone for DOS, written in Assembler '''Author:''' Eric Meyer '''Homepages:''' http://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/ http://short.stop.home.att.net/vde/vde.htm (Down - 02/28/2009)* http://www.punky.com/vde/ (404 - 07/14/12) https://archive.org/details/vde-197 - new home as of google sites going down '''Family:''' MsDosEditors TinyEditors WordStarFamily CPMEditorFamily '''Platform:''' CP/M, DOS, also runs under OS/2 and all MS Windows '''License:''' Freeware '''Screenshot:''' http://sites.google.com/site/texteditors/Home/files/VDE_Screenshot.png As quoted from short.stop.home.att.net/vde/vde.htm : Eric Meyer's VDE is a small, fast text editor and word processor that is surprisingly powerful and customizable, with powerful macro capabilities. It runs under DOS 2+ and DOS shells (including DesqVIEW, which it recognizes), OS/2, and Windows 3.x/9x/Me/NT/2K/XP/Vista/7. It can read and edit files in a variety of formats: ASCII, ANSI, Unix, WordStar, WordPerfect, Word and others. VDE runs even on older PCs, including XTs, and supports the HP LX series palmtops. It can access the Windows 3.x/9x clipboard directly, and the Windows NT/2K/XP clipboard with external utilities. VDE uses a modified and improved WordStar command set. (The [[SUE]] editor has a similar command set.) VDE can "edit files around 70-80k as a single unit," while "larger files will be divided into multiple segments for editing, up to a maximum of around 500k of actual text" (from VDE.TXT, current documentation). VDE will open up to eight files at the same time, and can open two windows into the same or different files. Long File Names are supported under 32-bit Windows. It is the ONLY editor I've ever used that will compare the text of two buffers without regard to line endings or wrapping. For example, if you have two buffers open with these lines: : Now is the : time for all good : men to come : to the aid of their : country : and this: : Now : is the time for all good : men to come to the ais : of their country. VDE will locate the two non-whitespace differences between these two blocks of text ("aid/ais" and "country/country.") Every other text editor I've ever used that has a file-compare mode will match each line as different. If you want to compare two hunks of reformatted text, ignoring line breaks, spacing, and indents, VDE is the way to go. -- EricPement ----- * Steven Adelewitz, the proprietor of the Short Stop pages, apparently died on January 15th, 2009, and the US Short Stop pages are permanently off-line. Mirrors elsewhere are still up, but some links point back at the offline US site. The Google Site listed is a VDE community effort to preserve Steven's work.
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