- E (text editor)
infobox software
name = E Text Editor
caption = e editing a Ruby source file
latest_release_version = 1.0.30
latest_release_date =19 September 2008
operating_system =Microsoft Windows
genre =Text editor
license = Proprietary
website = http://e-texteditor.com/E Text Editor is a
text editor forMicrosoft Windows . Its notable features include a personalrevision control system ; branched, multi-level, graphical undo; and the ability to run TextMate bundles through the use ofCygwin .A
Linux version is planned. [E Text Editor v1.0 Released (beta period is over), "E Text Editor Blog",7 August 2007 . http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2007/e_v10_released]TextMate Bundle Support
A prominent element of the promotion and marketing of e is its ability to run many TextMate bundles directly from the MacroMates CVS repository. Because most bundle commands rely on Unix commands not typically available on Windows, e uses the
Cygwin toolset. Bundle commands can therefore useBash ,Unix command line tools, or scripting languages like Ruby or Python. As of v1.1.121 beta e bundle commands can be set to use the native Windows environment. This allows bundle commands access to non-Cygwin interpreters.A key limitation is the use by many bundles of
Mac OS specific commands or applications. These bundles often needporting ranging from minor changes to significant rewriting. Bundles which require Windows-specific changes can be saved in the bundle editor as Windows Cygwin or Windows native. Because bundle commands use the sameplist XML format as TextMate, these Windows-specific changes are put in their own sections. This, in theory, allows the e community to contribute back changes to the central MacroMates repository.Some bundles are included with the e's base distributions. Additional bundle ports are available under the
MIT License from the "e Bundles" Project. [ [http://code.google.com/p/ebundles/ e Bundles] ]e also supports text editing via FTP in the form of a plug-in called Remote Projects. [ [http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2008/remote_projects Being the Change » Blog Archive » Remote Projects ] ]
Open source spinoffs
e has also spawned an
open source project called "wxCocoaDialog". [ [http://code.google.com/p/wxcocoadialog/ wxCocoaDialog] ] wxCocoaDialog is a Windows port of theMac OS X CocoaDialog application. wxCocoaDialog provides a set of common GUI controls such as text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more from within a command-line application.wxCocoaDialog requires no knowledge of the underlying
WxWidgets graphics toolkit. Many bundle commands in e andTextMate use (wx)CocoaDialog controls.See also
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Comparison of text editors
*List of text editors References
External links
* [http://www.e-texteditor.com E Text Editor - The Power of Textmate on Windows]
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