• Multiple windows with document tab bar for quick navigation
• Split windows to view different parts of a file at the same time
• Named keyboard macros simplify repetitive tasks
• Templates and Skeletons write code for you
• Autocorrection and Smartype finish words for you
• Smart language sensitive editing
• Parameter assistance tooltips
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Cut/copy/paste across files and windows
• Column, line and stream blocks
• Shift selected text horizontally left and right
• Drag & drop text across windows and applications
• Column selection operations including overlay, move, copy and fill
• Temporary text buffers
• Sort text selections
• Power search & replace, with full regular expressions and search filtering 
• Name Bookmarks which persist across sessions, plus Line based bookmarks
• Paragraph reformat and word wrap
• Auto-save and optional backup files
• Virtual memory text editing engine handles very large files

Skeletons and Ascii chart bar

• Document Tab Bar for quick window selection
• Text Bar shows line numbers, new and edited lines and bookmarks
• Full screen mode
• Fully customisable toolbars with tool hints
• Floating and docked Toolbars
• Floating and docked Workspace, Skeleton and Output windows
• Tabbed dialogs
• Context sensitive help throughout
• Mouse and status bar shortcuts
• Mouse wheel scrolling
• Keyboard remapping
• Open files and windows retained across sessions
• Histories recall previous operations
• File name completion

Text Bar

• Visually compare files for differences - seeing is believing
• Source code database indexes every function, procedure, class, structure, etc. automatically on the fly
• Instantly jump to any function, procedure or class
• Source code browser show the big picture and let you navigate around complex projects with ease
• No limits to the number of files, functions, classes in a database
• Find all References to a function, class etc.
• Ruler for aligning text and counting columns
• String length display on status bar
• Compile and fix errors from within ED
• Hypertext function, method, class etc. lookup and help
• File locking prevents two people editing the same file at the same time
• Fast multithreaded Find in Files and Replace in Files

• Filtered searches let you include or exclude specific textual elements
• Find in Files, with multiple results windows
• Replace in Files for quick, painless mass file updates
• Multithreaded Find in Files so you can keep on working
• Find the current word without using a dialog
• Full Regular expressions, with a choice of common regular expression dialects
• Regular expression menu for easy access to common expressions
• Ignore case, Match whole word
• Search and replace within a selection
• Search Entire file tells you when your back where you started
• Set Bookmarks for all matches in a file
• Modeless Find dialog so you aren't blocked from other editing tasks
• History lists for repeating previous searches
• Fast multithreaded search engine

• Intelligent language sensitive editing speeds up code entry
• Autocorrection looks up language dictionaries to finish words for you
• Smartype completes words by looking for matches in the text
• Parameter Assistant pops up a tooltip with the parameters required for the current function
• Code templates and skeletons write complete blocks of code
• Code completion terminates code blocks correctly
• Smart code indenting formats code as you type to match your programming style
• Indent using tabs, spaces or virtual space
• Templates & skeletons are specified in simple text files
• Automatic case conversion, optionally when a symbol is typed

Indent Setup

• Group related sets of files together into Projects for easy access
• Virtual Folders organize files to suite your needs in an easy to use project tree
• No limits to the number of files in a Project
• Use any number of related projects within a Workspace
• Projects aren't tied to a drive or directory so they can be easily moved
• Opens Microsoft Visual C++ Projects
• Project History lets you quickly open recent projects
• Projects maintain desktop state, including which files are open, and position of docked windows, including toolbars
• Files Workspace window provides built-in Windows Explorer like capabilities
• Enhanced resizable File Open dialog with MRU Folders list, filename auto-completion, folder bar and more
• File History list for quick access to recent files

• Run compilers and other tools without leaving ED
• After compiling, automatic error tracking puts you at the point in the source where the error occurred
• Go to the next or previous error
• Add new Error Track types
• Compiler/Make output displayed in an ED window in real-time
• A mouse-click on any error line within the output window jumps to the location in the offending source module

Program Details

• See your code in a whole new light
• Language sensitive fast, smart parser
• Support for 34 languages pre-defined
• Define new languages based on existing languages
• 38 individual language elements for each language
• Ten user defined comments let you display different types of comments in different colors
• Supports nested comments
• Ten user defined word categories to group words into meaningfull sets
• User defined word lists in a simple text file
• No limit to the number of words you can define
• Color schemes to suit your computer or mood

Comment Setup

• 34 pre-defined languages currently supported
• Define new languages based on existing languages
• Simple ASCII text file format for user modification, extension or customisation of word lists and templates

• With ED's source browser database you can:
  • Work directly with functions, methods & classes instead of files
  • Right click to instantly jump directly to definitions in any source file
  • Jump between declarations and definitions for languages like C/C++
  • Multiple database matches are displayed in a tree for quick selection
  • View program structure. See all the functions, methods, classes etc. in an entire project in a hierarchical tree and go to any item
  • Find functions, classes etc. in the database using regular expression lookups
• The Source Database is built and maintained automatically in background threads, and has no impact on your editing
• Toolbar list of all functions, methods, classes etc. in the current source file and go to any one
• Go to the next or previous function, class etc.
• See the current function name on a toolbar
• Locate and open language include files
• Toolbar list of all include files in the current file
• Perform statement and bracket matching
• Get context sensitive help on any word in any Windows help file
• Insert hypertext jumps in any file and go to them

Parameter Assistant

See the current function name

• Color Syntax highlighting with user defined color schemes
• Print Preview
• Customisable headers and footers
• Set margins, landscape, portrait etc.
• Optional line numbers
• Use any printer font

• Extensive context sensitive HTML help is available throughout ED
• Toolbar Tooltips
• Free lifetime technical support
• Free 12 month Upgrade Protection Plan gives you access to all new releases and upgrades for free for 12 months
• Support Forums - get help from other ED users and Soft As It Gets

• Files locked during editing
• Locked files can be viewed by other users
• Configuration and history information maintained independently for each user
• Synchronizes files with other Development tools

• Write your own extensions to ED
• Share programs with other users via. our Web forums
• Approximately one megabyte of source provided
• ED C Compiler included

• ED can emulate almost any editor. Support included for:
  Brief, Windows/CUA, MultiEdit, Norton, Wordstar, Qedit, Visual Studio.
• Create your own keyboard definition, or modify the ones we supply
• ED's menus, keyboard and toolbars are easily reconfigured to suit your specific requirements
• Set ED up to behave as you want via its broad range of configuration options
• Comprehensive context sensitive help answers your questions

• Runs on Windows 98/ME, NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Vista.
• Full international keyboard support
• Support for UNIX files and mainframe DOS emulators
• Change a file between Unix and DOS formats
• Works with Networked files using UNC

• Microsoft Windows 98/ME, NT4, 2000, XP or Vista. Windows 2000, XP or Vista preferred.
• 128 MB RAM
• 5-10 MB available disk space
• Supports network file locking on all networks
• P3 400Mhz recommended minimum