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Visual SlickEdit

Name	Visual SlickEdit
Version	OS/2: 4.0b (1999) Windows: 8.0 (2003)
Vendor	MicroEdge Inc. Slickedit Inc.
Author	J. Clark Maurer
Licence	Commercial
WWW	http://slickedit.com

Visual SlickEdit is a powerful programmable multi-platform software development editor that is based on SlickEdit and IBM's E3 editor (a predecessor to Enhanced Editor) concept and originally written by some of the same authors.

History

In 1994 MicroEdge introduced Visual SlickEdit for OS/2, an graphical editor that offered much stronger project handling and programming utility features than EPM could offer and with versions two and three of VS in particular offered a host of features not generally available on other editors or only by linking them to external utilities. Some of the features from classic Visual SlickEdit have since disappeared from the modern product. VS was soon after the introduction of v1 ported to Windows and a couple of years later to Unix systems that offered X windows capability. At the same time the company continued to offer the text mode version of SlickEdit for DOS and Unix systems that were discontinued or lacked X Windows capability and later as a lower cost option to Visual Slickedit on modern Unix variants.

While VS sold reasonably on the OS/2 platform it never regained the market share it had before the introduction of EPM, and many OS/2 users remained unaware of its existence. This relative lack of sales lead to version 4.0b being the last one for OS/2.

Currently SlickEdit Inc. offers SlickEdit Pro for Windows Vista and later, Linux, macOS, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris.

The company has from time to time sold versions of the editor designed to integrate into IDEs from other companies, in the 1990s they sold a Borland Delphi and CA Jasmine TND compatible versions of VS, more recently offered a version that integrated into Microsoft's Visual Studio and currently have a version that integrates into Eclipse. In the late 90s the company also made a short stop in the mainframe world with a version of the editor especially tailored to develop S/390 software.

Features

A few features beyond the usual list for programming editors:

Project handling
File and directory compare (v3.0?)
Symbol tagging (fully configurable)
Fully configurable compiler/linker error message parser
Column awareness (fill, tab, delete etc.)

Versions

1994: 1.0
1994: 1.6
1995: Visual SlickEdit for Unix
1995: 1.7
1996-08-05: 2.0 - (Nov 1996 V2.0 for X Windows)
- 1996-12-05: 2.0b
- 2.0c
1997-10-01: 3.0
- 3.0a
- 3.0b
1998-12-01: 4.0
- 1999: 4.0b

Later versions without OS/2 support:

2000: Visual SlickEdit v5.0
2001: Visual SlickEdit v6.0
2002: Visual SlickEdit v7.0
2003: Visual SlickEdit v8.0

Articles

Visual SlickEdit 2.0 The EDM/2 Editor Shootout

Publications

John Hurst: Professional SlickEdit - Wrox 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-12215-0

Links

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-== Description ==
+{{Software
+|Picture=NA.png
+|Name=Visual SlickEdit
+|Version=OS/2: 4.0b (1999)<br />Windows: 8.0 (2003)
+|Vendor=MicroEdge Inc.<br />Slickedit Inc.
+|Author=J. Clark Maurer
+|Licence=Commercial
+|WWW=http://slickedit.com
+}}
+Visual SlickEdit is a powerful programmable multi-platform software development editor that is based on [[SlickEdit]] and IBM's E3 editor (a predecessor to [[Enhanced Editor]]) concept and originally written by some of the same authors.
-Visual Slick Edit from Microedge is a multi-platform powerful programming editor that is based on the [[EPM/NEPMD]] concept and originally written by the same authors. Introduced in Unfortunately Version 4.0b is the last for OS/2 where on other platforms 10.0 is up to date. But 3.0 / 4.0 is still ahead of all other editors I know (MED, Kon, LPEX...).
+==History==
+In 1994 MicroEdge introduced '''Visual SlickEdit''' for OS/2, an graphical editor that offered much stronger project handling and programming utility features than EPM could offer and with versions two and three of VS in particular offered a host of features not generally available on other editors or only by linking them to external utilities. Some of the features from classic Visual SlickEdit have since disappeared from the modern product. VS was soon after the introduction of v1 ported to Windows and a couple of years later to Unix systems that offered X windows capability. At the same time the company continued to offer the text mode version of SlickEdit for DOS and Unix systems that were discontinued or lacked X Windows capability and later as a lower cost option to Visual Slickedit on modern Unix variants.
-There is an EDM article about version 2.0
+While VS sold reasonably on the OS/2 platform it never regained the market share it had before the introduction of EPM, and many OS/2 users remained unaware of its existence. This relative lack of sales lead to version 4.0b being the last one for OS/2.
-A few features beyond the usual list for programming editors -
+Currently SlickEdit Inc. offers '''SlickEdit Pro''' for Windows Vista and later, Linux, macOS, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris.
+The company has from time to time sold versions of the editor designed to integrate into IDEs from other companies, in the 1990s they sold a [[Turbo Pascal|Borland Delphi]] and CA Jasmine TND compatible versions of VS, more recently offered a version that integrated into Microsoft's Visual Studio and currently have a version that integrates into [[Eclipse]]. In the late 90s the company also made a short stop in the mainframe world with a version of the editor especially tailored to develop S/390 software.
+==Features==
+A few features beyond the usual list for programming editors:
 * Project handling
 * File and directory compare (v3.0?)
 * Symbol tagging (fully configurable)
 * Fully configurable compiler/linker error message parser
-* ...
+* Column awareness (fill, tab, delete etc.)
-==Version==
-* '''Last OS/2 version:''' v4.0b
+==Versions==
-* Last version of the 3x branch v3.0b
+*1994: 1.0
-* Last DOS and 16 bit OS/2 text mode version known: v2.3
+*1994: 1.6
-* Current version for other platforms: v18 aka SlickEdit 2014
+*1995: Visual SlickEdit for Unix
+*1995: 1.7
+* 1996-08-05: 2.0 - (Nov 1996 V2.0 for X Windows)
+**1996-12-05: 2.0b
+** 2.0c
+* 1997-10-01: 3.0
+**3.0a
+**3.0b
+* 1998-12-01: 4.0
+**1999: 4.0b
+Later versions without OS/2 support:
+*2000: Visual SlickEdit v5.0
+*2001: Visual SlickEdit v6.0
+*2002: Visual SlickEdit v7.0
+*2003: Visual SlickEdit v8.0
-==Links==
+==Articles==
-* http://www.edm2.com/0505/editors1.html
+* [[Visual SlickEdit 2.0]] The EDM/2 Editor Shootout
-* http://slickedit.com MicroEdge homepage
-==Author==
+==Publications==
-*MicroEdge Inc. (Original author)
+*John Hurst: ''Professional SlickEdit'' - Wrox 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-12215-0
-*Slickedit Inc.
-== License ==
+==Links==
-*Commercial - OS/2 and DOS versions discontinued and no longer sold.
+* [http://slickedit.com SlickEdit homepage]
+* [[C2find:SlickEdit]]
-[[Category:Tools]] [[Category:MS Windows Tools]] [[Category:DOS Tools]] [[Category:AIX Tools]] [[Category:Linux Tools]] [[Category:MAC OSX Tools]] [[Category:HPUX Tools]] [[Category:Solaris Tools]]
+[[Category:Text editors]]