EvolvEd

[*ProteanThread*]

http://home.no/evolved/

evolvEd® is a FREE general purpose text editor useful for
web-developing, programming and scripting.

Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.

When "just getting the job done" is work enough, the last thing you need
is to waste time having to learn yet another computer application. Your
experience with other tools should be relevant to each new application,
making it possible to sit down and use that new application right away.

Whether you simply need a powerful replacement for Notepad, a tool for
editing your web pages, or a programming IDE, evolvEd® does what you
want, the way you would expect.

--
Woodzy
sysop at rtdos dot com

http://www.rtdos.com (alt OS for games based on the classics)
http://rtdos.com/webportal (retro computing webportal)
http://i.webring.com/hub?ring=mess ( M.E.S.S. emulator official webring )

 

[Frank Delamarre]

http://home.no/evolved/

evolvEd® is a FREE general purpose text editor useful for
web-developing, programming and scripting.

It adds 302 registry keys.
It can't load html and css files (runtime errors).
It's crapware.

Frank

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

evolvEd® is a FREE general purpose text editor useful for
web-developing, programming and scripting.

Not bad. From a first look it seems to use several 'ideas' ;-) from
the Scintilla project. (Very alike functions, look and feel, and such.)
But if that's the case - the Scintilla code is worth to be based on.

What makes me feel a bit uneasy is the entry 'Help->Register' in the
help file. This menu entry isn't available inside the program(, yet?).
But it is possible that the program will cease to be freeware after
the first bug-trapping round is over... (The first announcement in
comp.editors has been only a few days ago.)

But thanks for the link, anyway. I only scan through comp.editors
about once a month... ;-)

BeAr

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

It adds 302 registry keys.
It can't load html and css files (runtime errors).
It's crapware.

Hm. I didn't install, but extracted the whole bunch and executed right
from the place. There where two major groups of keys added: The self
registration of the *.ocx components. This is common with programs
using COM-extensions, unfortunately. (That's why I try to avoid such
programs.) And a large list of '.test.XXX' entries which are dummy
entries for shell handling of supported file types. You can delete
the latter, and they won't be recreated. (At least they have not on
my system.)

The program writes to other places, too. But it seems more a consequence
of the used *.ocx libraries and the Visual Basic virtual machine than
of the source code itself. Again, *this* is the reason why I try to
avoid VB programs at all...

Although this program starts with a rather high version number (v1.9),
it should be regarded as Betaware. 'Crapware' seems to be a bit strong
for the functionality provided. (And - coming to this: I had no errors
in opening *.htm[l] or *.css files. But they were not color-coded as
opposed to other document types. Obviously there *is* a bug, somewhere.)

Still. It will not become my editor of choice, even if the author
repairs the mentioned bugs and glitches. ;-)

BeAr