QEdit

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QEdit is a shareware programmers editor originally introduced for DOS in 1985 by SemWare Corporation. That later became known as The SemWare Editor Junior.

It is an in-memory editor originally developed in Turbo Pascal that had some notable feature in its time such as a simple Pascal like macro language and the ability to run in just 50k of memory (later C based versions needed 90k) which resulted in the company later offering a memory resident (TSR) version of the package.

History

QEdit 2.1 was re-written in C and ported to OS/2 1.x. But apart from the ability to handle larger files it did not offer anything over and above the DOS version except for a higher retail price. This version was later used as the basis for version 2 of the DOS version which also added a TSR capable edition. While QEdit was a well liked product it could never truly be a programmers editor in the modern sense since it did not parse text, rendering features such as syntax highlighting for instance impossible to achieve. This lead the company to re-write the product from scratch and in 1991 it offered a new version to beta testers called QEdit Pro that had parsing features and a much improved macro language. However that product had a difficult birth and did not see a release until 1993 as The SemWare Editor and then only in a DOS version with no OS/2 version being made available as had initially been suggested.

In 1994 the company started offering QEdit 3.0 in a 32-bit version for OS/2 2.0 or higher and now offered some integration features such as support for long filenames. Most of the OS/2 support did not arrive until a year later with version 4 but by that time is supported the OS/2 clipboard and so on. In 1997 the company renamed QEdit The SemWare Editor Jr. and in a similar timeframe stated to offer a Windows 32-bit console edition of the Semware Editor.

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Releases

QEdit for OS/2 V1.55
QEdit
  • 1.0 (Nov 1985)
  • 1.2 (Feb 1986)
  • 2.00 (Feb 1988)
  • 2.06 (May 1988)
  • 2.07 (Dec 1988)
  • 2.07A (Feb 1989)
  • 2.1 (Feb 1990)
QEdit Advanced
  • 2.08 (Jul 1989)
  • 2.10 (Feb 1990)
  • 2.15 (Aug 1991)
  • 3.00 (Jan 1994)
QEdit TSR
  • 1.10
  • 1.15
QEdit for OS/2 (16-bit)
  • 1.00 (1989)
  • 1.50 (Feb 1990)
  • 1.55 (Aug 1991)
QEdit for OS/2 (32-bit)
  • 3.00

License

  • QEdit aka The SemWare Editor Jr. is closed source shareware, the DOS version is still available but the OS/2 and TSR versions are no longer offered.

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