FTE

The Folding Text Editor (FTE) is a multi-platform programmer's folding text editor.

Features

 * file browser
 * buffers
 * text-mode or presentation manager
 * configuration compiler (cfte)
 * Modes:Files can be opened in different modes. The default is PLAIN. Smart indent mode can be activated for C and REXX.
 * Syntax Highlighting:Syntax colouring can be configured by command colorize.
 * FTE has support for syntax colouring, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent for Ada, Assembly language, C, C++, Diff files, E-Mail files, FORTRAN, HTML, IDL, Java, LinuxDoc, Make files, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, REXX, Sh (UNIX shell scripts), SQL, TeX and Texinfo.
 * In addition it is relatively easy to add your own syntax support to the editor but the syntaxin mechanism of FTE presents itself as a configurable state machine.

Versions
Note that up until around 2000 the software had fairly ordinary version numbers but the main author stopped mostly using them at 0.46.x and started using release dates instead, current source code release is roughly 0.51.x.
 * 0.46b5 (2000-01-23)
 * 2001-08-19 - DOS binary release
 * 2002-03-24 - OS/2 binary release (EMX and VisualAge C++ builds), Linux release
 * 2005-01-08 - MS Windows 32-bit binary release
 * 2005-11-15 - DOS build: fte0501.zip
 * 2005-11-20
 * OS/2 - OpenWatcom build: fte20060126.zip
 * 2011-07-08 - Released as source code only

Links

 * Reviews
 * Andy Pitonyak: FTE Version 0.46b5 - A part of the "A Programmer's Editor Shootout" series of articles.
 * David Mertz: A review of FTE for OS/2 (2000).


 * FTE homepage - on SourceForge, note that the project page has much newer source releases than are offered on the homepage.
 * FTE Tips