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The Aurora Editor version 3.0 - Feature List
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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 1 Gigabyte virtual memory uses extended/expanded
memory and disk.
+ Line length up to 16000 characters
+ Simultaneous editing of many files
+ Shrinks to less than 1.5k when shelling to Dos
* 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 Basic/Pascal-like macro language (AML) for
extending and configuring the editor
+ Easy-to-learn
+ Object-oriented, event-driven architecture
+ Hundreds of functions
+ Over 15000 lines of macro source code included
+ Compilation support - cursor moves to directly 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, Dos default order
+ File lists
+ Variable or fixed format
+ Supports Windows/95 long file names
+ 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 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
+ 25/28/43/50-line EGA/VGA modes
+ Supports 132x25 and 132x43 video modes, and more