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Future Wave Editor

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Future Wave Editor
Name Future Wave Editor
Version 2.25 (2001)
Vendor Future Wave Limited
Author Shigenori Takeda
Licence Shareware
WWW archived (2008)

The Future Wave Editor is a small but deceptively powerful programmers editor from the Japanese company Future Wave Limited.

Features

  • The file size is unlimited and you can edit up to 12 files at the same time. (Up to 10,000,000 lines can be edited.)
  • Only on DBCS systems: full DBCS support, you can edit EUC and JIS encoded files.
  • Unlimited undo and redo.
  • Customizable (Environment, Key Assignment, Keyword Setting) Environments (language compiler support etc.) can be automatically changed by file extensions.
  • Syntax highlighting customizable by keywords, included definitions for C/C++, Basic, Java, Pascal and REXX
  • Support for REXX macros.
  • Built-in grep. (search for strings in multiple files)
  • Regular expressions can be used in Search, Replace, and grep.
  • A function to run external programs
  • Help features of APIs can be displayed with the Help of Toolkit, etc.
  • Powerful support for program development (displays a list of functions, jumps to corresponding parentheses).

Version

  • 1.95
  • 2.00
  • 2.01
  • 2.10 (1999)
  • 2.20 (May 1999)
  • 2.22 (Aug 1999)
  • 2.25 (Jan 2000) - FWE225.LZH Japanese, fwe225.zip English

Requires: OS/2 Warp Version 3 or higher

Language Support

  • English - Built in.
  • Japanese - Built in.
  • Russian - Separate (fwerus.zip), translation done by Alex Slyotov (Only works with the English edition).