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MultiEd 2.24

Now Available

New Features

Some improved template files
Coloring for VHDL (.vdh files)
Several other improvements in supporting files.

Compared to 2.22, MultiEd itself is unchanged in this update.

Downloads and links:

ReadMeFirst.txt (Down load and install instructions)
License
Download Self-exploding install program for version 2.24 1.14 mbytes
Optional download: thesaurus (self-exploding file, about 702 KB)
Customize tool buttons, templates, and support files Some hints and helps for version 2.22
New! Tutorials for using some of MultiEd's special features

MultiEd is a full featured text editor for Windows. It is designed to simplify editing of program source, html, INI, TXT, and other ASCII files. It may be used as an upgrade of the Windows program Notepad. Programmers may use it for editing source files when a special IDE for the language is unavailable or undesirable. It features programmable tool buttons that can be used to save a file and start a compiler or run the program. It also has features that assist when working with multi-file projects.

It is designed to:

Be easy to use for beginners with an interface similar to other Windows editors and word processors.
Provide powerful features for advanced users.
Adaptable for many program languages. It currently automatically provides syntax coloring for over 25 file types.
Provide an optional simple "project" concept that can keep tract of the various text files used in a project and automatically find and provide a list of classes and functions in those files.
Provide easy connections to many compilers and browsers. (Connections can be made directly to the program or indirectly using .bat files for DOS programs and DDE for Windows programs. The macro capability allows sending keystrokes to other programs. For example, you can tell a browser to load an .html file.)
Be self contained in one folder, avoiding the use of the registry.
Allow customization even when used in read-only folders in a computer lab.
Assists programmers write readable programs by suggesting indented left margins determined by { and } and by helping to find mismatched or missing brackets.

For a list of features see traditional features and new features.

A user has reported that MultiEd runs fine on his fast Linux machine using the VMware emulator.

MultiEd is copyrighted and all rights are reserved by the author. However, it is available to educational, nonprofit organizations, faculty and students without charge.

Language Support
It includes colorings for each of the following languages. In addition, it can find functions and methods in those languages whose names are bolded. Languages with tool button support are underlined.

MASM (Intel assembly)
Bat files
c
c#
c++

Delphi
Hypertext (HTML, XML, PHP, SSS)
Initialization (.ini)
Java
JScript
Pascal

Perl
Python
SQL
Text files
Visual Basic
VDHL

Release 2.24 (2/2/06):

Improved some of the template files
Added a coloring for VHDL
Improved some other support files

Release 2.22 (9/2/05):

new, improved Tool Setup Program
matches html tags like <ul> and </ul> by clicking find brace button
keyboard macros
load files into Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 6.0 and higher
templates
less obtrusive indent lines
coloring for PHP
Tool buttons show special icons for Hypertext, Java, and Dos related tools

Release 2.16 (6/6/03):

Eliminates flicker when indent lines are being used.
Margin lines move horizontally when the line with the "{" is moved horizontally.
Allows users to customize MultiEd in read-only lab settings provided they have a directory on a server
In multiuser NT, 2000, and XP computers, each user can have their own customized initialization files in their personal My Documents.
When processing Java applets, the runjava.bat file searches for an .htm file and .html file before creating a default .html file.
The color of comments does not change after using the "Font" menu item in the "Options" menu.

Release 2.12. (11/16/02): This update provides mouse wheel support. Like 2.11, it allows a tool to apply to multiple file types. Bug fixes include:

Fixes scrolling problems when indents lines are being used.
Fixes disappearing alternate quotes (often ' ') problems when indents lines are being used.
Hopefully fixes the problems concerning Tool #1's opening of DOS windows
Unreadable bookmark lines when indents lines are being used.
Some less significant problems.

Downloads and links:

ReadMeFirst.txt (Down load and installation instructions)
Download MultiEd 2.24 (self-exploding file, about 1.1 MB)
Optional: download thesaurus (self-exploding file, about 702 KB)
Customize your tool buttons Some suggestions for customizing the tool buttons. Last new suggestion added 7/13/2004.
New! Tutorials for using some of MultiEd's special features

IMPORTANT:

You must install the Java JDK and optional the Java documentation before the tool buttons can support Java properly. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads/index.html IMPORTANT: Make sure that you look at the "Installation Instructions" using a link on the download page. It is particularly important to "Update the PATH variable". It is also suggested that the CLASSPATH be set to "." unless you already have a class path. In that case, you must to add ".;" to the CLASSPATH. (While setting the CLASSPATH to "." is not really needed, it can be prevent serious problems if installation of another program adds its own CLASSPATH without brothering to tell you what it did.) See that page for instructions on how to set environmental variables in your version of Windows.
You must install the Masm 6.15 from the CD that comes with Kip Irvine's book Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers, Prentice-Hall, before the tools for MASM will assemble and link properly. The tools assume that Masm is installed in C:\MASM615, its default directory.
Some of the programable tool buttons or their associated .bat files must be customized to reflect the location of the programs they use.

The MultiEd toolbar.