Current version 0.2.17, Updated: November 12, 2001

FED is VIO mode programmers editor. It's fast, small in size and flexible.

A lot of useful macro already present in default configuration file and you may add your own written either in simple built-in or REXX language.

FAST Editor Lite is distributed as open source project under BSD-like license.

Features of FED: CUA style blocks Full UNDO Syntax highlighting for C++/REXX/HTML/ASM/Makefile/Pascal/Perl/PHP/Mail Stream and rectangular blocks Auto indent/smart C++ indent Conversion to upper/lower case characters/blocks with NLS support Bracket matching for ()/{}/[]/<> bracket pairs Flexible key assignment Transparent with PM clipboard Block sort of rectangular blocks with NLS collate support Keyboard macro recorder/player REXX macro support Saving of last cursor position and other data in Extended Attributes Unix/DOS file formats supported Up to 10 user accessible JumpLists supported kbInit/kbDone/kbTimer pseudo keys

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You can download current version of FED here.

Changes in recent version. (full history is included in package)

WARNING: This version is not completely compatible with older ones in syntax and naming of configuration variables.

+ - added

* - fixed

- - dropped



v0.2.17

        + Pipe interface

        * Fixed kbAltF8 macro

        * Fixed redraw (window title) from threads other than main

        * Improved handling different line delimiters (CR/LF/CRLF)

        * Fixing traps when opening file on heavy loaded LAN or via slow link

        * Fixed handling of '{' and '}' inside REXX macro

        * A try to improve handling of bracket pairs matching



v0.2.16

        + Added built-in implementation of word wrapping

        + Extended fedGet/fedSet to support new word wrap settings

        + Added FlipWordWrap and FlipWordWrapMerge functions

        + Added %w format character in status line

        + Added editor.default.wordwrap.state and

          editor.default.wordwrap.margin variables

        * Some cleanup of FED.INI. Some macro are moved to SAMPLE.INI

Some useful macro shipped with FED.

Assigned key	Description
Ctrl+F1	Locate function under cursor in CPREF.
Alt+F9	Execute NMAKE, build JumpList and show it. Some kind of replacement of similar command of old Borland's IDE.
Shift+F9	Show error list built by Alt+F9 again.
Alt+V	Show list of all functions in current file. Algorithm is not very smart but function is very convenient.
kbInit	Load additional FED.INI if starting directory specified in list. Useful for adjusting FED configuration for purpose of group of projects and/or for projects with complex directory structure.
Ctrl+F2	Execute specified command and put its output into clipboard.
Ctrl+F3	Convert marked HEX dump into character string.
Ctrl+F4	Simple expression calculator. Result is returned in clipboard.
Ctrl+F5	Prepare data in clipboard for insertion into HTML. Actually replaces < and > into &lt; and &gt; respectively.
Ctrl+Q	Insert <b></b> HTML tag. If there marked block is present then it will be moved between <b> and </b>.