KEDIT

A multi-platform programmers text editor that is a functional clone of XEDIT developed by the Mansfield Software Group. For macro programming purposes the DOS and MS Windows versions come with their own REXX like interpreter called KEXX as does the OS/2 version, but the latter can also make use of the REXX version built into the OS. Originally developed as a text mode application for DOS and OS/2 with the OS/2 version being very popular for a time, later a MS Windows GUI version was added and development of the text mode versions stopped more or less, but the company continued to support the text mode versions.

In 2014 the proprietors of the company announced that they would be winding the company down slowly and have discontinued sales of all their products except for existing customers.

Note that there have been at the least 7 open source and commercial text editors called KEdit, most of them intended for the KDE-Windows system on Linux, none of them have any relation to the original KEDIT program and should not be mistaken for it and all bar a few minor players agreed to change their name after being contacted by Mansfield.

Version

• Latest OS/2 version: 5.00 SL4

Language Support

• English - Built in.

Scripts, extensions, libraries and new language support files

• http://www.kedit.com/libtxtmsg.html The company's own library of functions for the DOS and OS/2 version of KEDIT
• http://www.kedit.com/libtxtuser.html User contributed OS/2 KEDIT scripts
• Frank Ellermann's collection of KEDIT scripts on the Internet Archive

License

• Commercial - Discontinued

Links

• http://www.kedit.com - Mansfield Software Group homepage
• http://www.kedit.com/k5sl4.html - Latest update to the v5 of Kedit
• http://www.rexswain.com/kedit.html - Rex Swain's KEDIT/KEXX Summary - Although intended for the Windows version most of the commands work with the text mode versions.

Publications

• Kedit: A powerful text editor for post-processing searches - From 1992

Author

Mansfield Software Group