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Short : In our opinion the BEST ever Text Editor on the Amiga!
Price : £15 (not inc postage.
Req : Workbench 2 or better.
Author:M.Reddy@ed.ac.uk. Martin Reddy

Authors description:
EdWord is an extremely powerful, general purpose text editor which offers a host of useful and helpful facilities. Since Edword's initial release 4 years ago it has undergone a myriad of improvements and updates resulting in the current version which provides an indispensable aid for every Amiga user. As you might expect, the basic function of EdWord is to edit text and in this role, it offers all the rudimentary facilities which any text editor might offer, but what makes EdWord that bit more special are the extra options which it provides. The following is a list of some of the more notable functions which are supported by version 6:

• Multiple Documents: you can edit up to 15 documents at once (memory permitting, of course) with a split screen option to view two of them together.
• A Macro Facility: lets you record any sequence of keypresses/ mouse clicks and menu selections, and then play them back. This is very useful for automating small repetitive jobs.
• An ARexx port offering an extensive and comprehensive range of commands to provide full automation of EdWord; with the ability to enter these commands directly (without using ARexx), as well as run any ARexx script from within the editor.
• PowerPacker Support: EdWord will (optionally) decrunch any data files which have been packed with this cruncher
• A new few feature called Auto Suggest whereby if you type in a filename which doesn't exist when loading, then EdWord will make an intelligent suggestion as to what you actually meant to type in!
• AppWindow Support: When running EdWord on a WorkBench screen, it is possible to load a file by simply dragging its icon into the editor's window
• Uses the clipboard device for all block operations
• Functions to reformat paragraphs of text, giving either left or full justified text.
• A calculator which lets you perform basic arithmetic as well as convert numbers between different bases including decimal,hexa- decimal,octal and binary
• An auto indenting facility as well as a symbolic indenting facility (i.e. EdWord can automatically indent your source code as you enter it)
• Text Casing of language keywords. i.e. certain keywords can be forced into a certain case (Uppercase,Lowercase or Capitalised) Useful to maintain a consistent look to a piece of source code
• Access to AmigaDOS to allow the user the ability to run any DOS command (This could be used to run a compiler or assembler through the editor)
• Save backups and auto save files to a specified directory.
• The ability to use either the standard EdWord file requester or the ReqTools or Asl library ones
• An ASCII table of printable character codes with the ability to insert any such character into the current text (from ASCII code 0 to 255)
• The ability to sort a block alphabetically - this could be used for arranging a list of names, games etc.
• checks RAM for any viruses or suspicious programs when it first loads up and alerts the user if it finds anything strange.
• Various screen resolutions are supported including PAL and NTSC standards, custom or WorkBench screen and the ability to work in interlace mode and upto 8 colours.
• Powerful printing options including the setting of margins, the page length, the ability to include page numbers and to specify the print pitch and quality.
• On-line help texts available from within the editor.

There are an awful lot of features offered by EdWord which may never be discovered by the casual user. If you intend to get the most out of this excellent text editor, then it would be a good idea to have a quick glance through some of the help texts offered by EdWordHelp.