The Aurora Editor version 3.0 - Feature List
Aurora is an advanced, professional quality text editor, offering you power, versatility, top-notch performance, and a full range of features including:
Ease-of-use:
- Intuitive user interface
- User-friendly menus showing key assignments
- Comprehensive on-line help
- Context-sensitive hot-keys to macro language help
- Emulation of other popular editors/word processors
- Helpful installation macro
Superb user-interface:
- Best text-mode windowing available
- Multi-window, multi-file
- Detachable pull-down menus, tool bar, controls, scroll bars
- Many window styles
- Ability to remember desktop layout, window and cursor positions
- Huge virtual screen larger than the display
Huge capacity:
- Lightning-fast 1 Gigabyte virtual memory uses extended/expanded memory and disk.
- Line lengths up to 16000 characters
- Simultaneous editing of many files
- Shrinks to less than 1.5k when shelling to Dos
Extremely fast:
- Displaying files
- Loading and saving files
- Searching
- Cut, paste, and block operations
- Sorting
Aurora is one of the fastest editors available
Powerful, easy-to-use macro language:
- Exceedingly flexible Basic/Pascal-like macro language (AML) for extending and configuring the editor
- Easy-to-learn
- Object-oriented, event-driven architecture
- Hundreds of functions
- Over 15000 lines of macro source code included
- Compilation support - cursor moves to directly compile errors
- Editor is written in the macro language
Fast Color syntax highlighting:
- Automatic syntax highlighting for over 20 languages included
- Customizable for any programming language, or even text files
- Configurable syntax, keywords, and colors
- Highlighting of keywords on-the-fly with different colors
Complete Mouse support for:
- Windows - move, resize, minimize, maximize, scrolling
- Menus
- Marking blocks
- Prompts, dialog boxes and controls
Folding and outlining capabilities:
- Open and closed folds
- Nested folds
- Automatic saving and loading of folds
- Ability to search through, or skip folds
- Export text without folds
Search and replace:
- Find matching braces and parentheses
- Regular expression search and replace
- Incremental search
- Find occurrences of a string
- Count occurrences of a string
- Scan files for a string
- Global multi-file search and replace
- Where-is-file search
Integrated file manager:
- Multiple instances
- Interactive directory tree
- Numerous commands - open, move, copy, delete, rename, run print, statistics, touch, change file attributes
- Execute commands on marked files/directories
- Sort by filename, extension, size, date-time, Dos default order
- File lists
- Variable or fixed format
- Supports Windows/95 long file names
- Configurable and programmable
Deep undo-redo:
- Unlimited multi-level undo and redo
- Configurable
- Programmable grouping of undoable/redoable commands
Fully configurable:
- Interactive configuration
- Customizable menu bars, pull-down menus, tool bar, prompts
- Reassignable keys for editing, prompts, and the file manager
- Programmable dialog boxes, and mouse
- Numerous window and prompt styles
- Editing preferences and colors
- Commands and macros
Word processing:
- Left and right margins
- Live wordwrap, standard wordwrap, autoindent
- Paragraph reformatting
- Centering and shifting of text
- Count words
- Prev/next paragraph
Block commands:
- Line, column, character, and stream marks
- Copy, move, delete, overlay, indent, unindent, reformat, fill, save, change case, capitalize, entab/detab
- Center, left and right justify
- Sorting
Clipboards:
- Multiple clipboards
- Cut, copy, append, paste, paste-over
- Copy to/paste from the Windows clipboard
- Clipboard viewer
Printing:
- Headers, footers, page numbers, and line numbers
- Adjustable line spacing
- Top, bottom, left and right margins
- Printer initialization string
- Ability to print to devices or files
Many other features, including:
- Hex view/entry mode
- Binary mode editing
- Capitalized/uppercase/lowercase filenames
- Support for Windows/95 long file names
- Bookmarks, bookmark list, quick bookmarks, cycle through bookmarks
- Complete keyboard macro capabilities
- Abbreviation expansions and typo-corrections as-you-type
- Template expansion
- Project Save/Restore
- International date-time formats, and thousands-separator
- Support for any 1 or 2 character line delimiter (CR, CR/LF, etc.)
- Configurable prompts:
- four different prompt styles: dialog boxes, one-line box, two-line box, command-line
- moveable and resizeable
- popup history windows
- filename completion
- copy and paste to and from prompts
- reassignable keys - Support for running compilers and jumping to compiler errors
- Machine code interface
- Lite installation to floppy drive
- Synchronized scrolling
- Log events
- Stopwatch command timer
- Digital clock
- Set alarms
- Ruler
- Optional cursor-line highlighting
- Optional highlighting of modified lines
- Default extensions when opening files
- Popup Ascii-chart with character entry
- Line and box drawing
- Three tab types - fixed, variable, and smart
- Supports real tabs
- Builtin entab and detab
- 25/28/43/50-line EGA/VGA modes
- Supports 132x25 and 132x43 video modes, and more
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