The Aurora Editor/32 version 3.0 - Feature List ----------------------------------------------- Aurora is an advanced, professional quality text editor, offering you power, versatility, top-notch performance, and a full range of features including: * Ease-of-use: + Intuitive user interface + User-friendly menus showing key assignments + Comprehensive on-line help + Context-sensitive hot-keys to macro language help + Emulation of other popular editors/word processors + Helpful installation macro * Superb user-interface: + Best text-mode windowing available + Multi-window, multi-file + Detachable pull-down menus, tool bar, controls, scroll bars + Many window styles + Ability to remember desktop layout, window and cursor positions + Huge virtual screen larger than the display * Huge capacity: + Lightning-fast 4 Gigabyte virtual memory + Line lengths up to 32000 characters + Simultaneous editing of many files * Extremely fast: + Displaying files + Loading and saving files + Searching + Cut, paste, and block operations + Sorting + Aurora is one of the fastest editors available * Powerful, easy-to-use macro language: + Exceedingly flexible macro language (AML) for extending and configuring the editor + Easy-to-learn + Object-oriented, event-driven architecture + Hundreds of functions + Call Win32 DLLs + Over 15000 lines of macro source code included + Compilation support - cursor moves directly to compile errors + Editor is written in the macro language * Fast Color syntax highlighting: + Automatic syntax highlighting for over 20 languages included + Customizable for any programming language, or even text files + Configurable syntax, keywords, and colors + Highlighting of keywords on-the-fly with different colors * Complete Mouse support for: + Windows - move, resize, minimize, maximize, scrolling + Menus + Marking blocks + Prompts, dialog boxes and controls * Folding and outlining capabilities: + Open and closed folds + Nested folds + Automatic saving and loading of folds + Ability to search through, or skip folds + Export text without folds * Search and replace: + Find matching braces and parentheses + Regular expression search and replace + Incremental search + Find occurrences of a string + Count occurrences of a string + Scan files for a string + Global multi-file search and replace + Where-is-file search * Integrated file manager: + Multiple instances + Interactive directory tree + Numerous commands - open, move, copy, delete, rename, run print, statistics, touch, change file attributes + Execute commands on marked files/directories + Sort by filename, extension, size, date-time, default order + File lists + Variable or fixed format + Configurable and programmable * Deep undo-redo: + Unlimited multi-level undo and redo + Configurable + Programmable grouping of undoable/redoable commands * Fully configurable: + Interactive configuration + Customizable menu bars, pull-down menus, tool bar, prompts + Reassignable keys for editing, prompts, and the file manager + Programmable dialog boxes, and mouse + Numerous window and prompt styles + Editing preferences and colors + Commands and macros * Word processing: + Left and right margins + Live wordwrap, standard wordwrap, autoindent + Paragraph reformatting + Centering and shifting of text + Count words + Prev/next paragraph * Block commands: + Line, column, character, and stream marks + Copy, move, delete, overlay, indent, unindent, reformat, fill, save, change case, capitalize, entab/detab + Center, left and right justify + Sorting * Clipboards: + Multiple clipboards + Cut, copy, append, paste, paste-over + Copy to/paste from the Windows clipboard + Clipboard viewer * Printing: + Headers, footers, page numbers, and line numbers + Adjustable line spacing + Top, bottom, left and right margins + Printer initialization string + Ability to print to devices or files * Many other features, including: + Hex view/entry mode + Binary mode editing + Capitalized/uppercase/lowercase filenames + Support for Windows/95/NT long file names + Bookmarks, bookmark list, quick bookmarks, cycle through bookmarks + Complete keyboard macro capabilities + Abbreviation expansions and typo-corrections as-you-type + Template expansion + Project Save/Restore + International date-time formats, and thousands-separator + Support for any 1 or 2 character line delimiter (CR, CR/LF, etc.) + Configurable prompts: - four different prompt styles: dialog boxes, one-line box, two-line box, command-line - moveable and resizeable - popup history windows - filename completion - copy and paste to and from prompts - reassignable keys + Support for running compilers and jumping to compiler errors + Machine code interface + Lite installation to floppy drive + Synchronized scrolling + Log events + Stopwatch command timer + Digital clock + Set alarms + Ruler + Optional cursor-line highlighting + Optional highlighting of modified lines + Default extensions when opening files + Popup Ascii-chart with character entry + Line and box drawing + Three tab types - fixed, variable, and smart + Supports real tabs + Builtin entab and detab + Supports any video mode you can think of: 80x25, 100x60, 140x90, etc.