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Alphatk is a text editor. It's most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents, and for editing of HTML source files. It has very rich features to aid in writing and editing files of those document types. It supports more than 40 different programming languages. As well as being useful for creating and editing such documents, Alphatk provides a host of facilities for communicating with compilers, diff, patch, version control systems, ftp sites, web sites, etc.
Alphatk is a little like emacs, in that it is a very powerful text editor. However it was designed with a graphical interface in mind, which can make it rather more mouse-friendly, and less reliant on cryptic keystrokes (although any action can be bound to any key combination so those who don't use a mouse much will still be happy!). Alphatk has a very rich feature set, which can be explored here.
Alphatk runs on Windows, Unix and MacOS X, so you can use the same editor on all your platforms.
The ftp site for Alphatk is ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha /tcl/alphatk/, which you should check regularly --- I upload modified versions quite often, without any formal announcements (every 1-3 months I announce a new version on comp.lang.tcl, summarising the recent changes).
Alphatk comes as a 45 day unlimited, fully-functional demo. After that you must purchase a license key. You can do so at http://order.kagi.com/?1GU.
New releases will be made as frequently as is necessary to keep up with bug reports and feature requests. Bug fixes and code contributions are much appreciated.
Alphatk would never have existed had it not been for Pete Keleher, the creator of 'Alpha', a MacOS only editor, and for the community of Alpha users who have contributed vast amounts of Tcl code which help make Alphatk the powerful editor it now is.
The final release of Alphatk 8.2 is now available: Download