FTE is a free text editor for developers. It is really powerful, yet very easy and intuitive to use.

Features:

* Syntax highlighting and syntax-aware autoindent for many languages / file formats, including C(++), Java, Perl, Sh, Pascal, SQL, Assembly, PHP, Python, REXX, Ada, Fortran, IDL, LinuxDoc, TeX, TeXInfo, HTML, diffs, emails and makefiles

* User-definable syntax highlighting using a configurable state machine

* Parenthesis matching

* Parsing of compiler output (jump to file/line of error, jump to prev/next error)

* Parsing of "grep" output (jump to file/line of match)

* Simple handling of several open files / directory views

* Several variations of the "copy'n'paste" mechanism (including "Copy-Append", "Paste column", "Paste line")

* Many Line transformation operations (split, join, center, toupper, tolower, togglecase, rot13, delete-to-end, ...)

* An ASCII table ("insert this funny char")

* Many block selection operations (mark stream/rectangle/line(s), insert stream/rectangle/line(s) from file, write selection to file, print selection)

* Operations on selections (toupper, tolower, rot13, user defined translates, indent entire block, sort, ...)

* Several navigation operations (search string, bookmark stack, goto line, goto matching parenthesis, go to next/prev similar word, ...)

* Search and replace optionally using regular expressions

* Folds, including "create by regexp", "create by routines", nested folds

* Interfacing to compiler/make, grep, shell, ispell

* Routine/Function list for several languages

* ... Many more

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