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Name	Folding Text Editor
Version
Vendor
Author	Marko Macek (Original author) Darin McBride (OS/2 and AIX ports) Zdeněk Kabeláč (maintainer) Gregg Young (eFTE2 author) Jeremy Cowgar Lauri Nurmi Timo Sirainen
Licence	Artistic License or GPL v2
WWW	http://fte.sourceforge.net

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

Gregg Young has made an updated OS/2 version that is called "enhanced FTE for OS/2" or eFTE/2 that has numerous features and OS/2 specific improvements.

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

eFTE2

eFTE v1.0 (2016-05-30)

FTE

Note that up until around 2000 the software had fairly ordinary version numbers but the main author stopped mostly using them at 0.46.xx and started using release dates instead, current source code release is roughly 0.51.xx.

Last known version: 20110708 - Released as source code only
Last known official OS/2 binary release is 20020324 and is available in both EMX and VisualAge C++ builds, but there is an unofficial build of 20060126
Last known MS Windows 32 bit binary release is 20050108
Last known official Linux release is 20020324 and the last binary release for DOS is 20010819, but there is an unofficial 20051115 build floating around the net as fte0501.zip

Add-ons

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

eFTE2

eFTE2 on Netlabs
Gregg Young's Warpstock 2016 talk - Focuses mainly on eFTE2
Gregg Young's Warpstock 2013 talk on eFTE/2

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+{{Software
+|Name=Folding Text Editor
+|Version=
+|Vendor=
+|Author=Marko Macek (Original author)
+*[[Darin McBride]] (OS/2 and AIX ports)
+*Zdeněk Kabeláč (maintainer)
+*[[Gregg Young]] (eFTE2 author)
+*Jeremy Cowgar
+*Lauri Nurmi
+*Timo Sirainen
+|Licence=[[Artistic License]] or<br />[[GPL v2]]
+|WWW=http://fte.sourceforge.net
+}}
 The '''Folding Text Editor''' (FTE) is a multi-platform programmer's folding text editor.
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 * 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==
@@ Line 21: / Line 45: @@
 ;Add-ons
-==Modes==
+==Links==
-Files can be opened in different modes. The default is PLAIN.
+;Reviews
-Smart indent mode can be activated for C and REXX.
+* [[Andy Pitonyak]]: [[FTE Version 0.46b5]] - A part of the "A Programmer's Editor Shootout" series of articles.
+* David Mertz: [http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/review_fte.html A review of FTE for OS/2] (2000).
-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.
-===Syntax Highlighting===
-Syntax colouring can be configured by command '''colorize'''.
-==Links==
 * [http://fte.sourceforge.net FTE homepage] - on [[SourceForge]], note that the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fte/ project page] has much newer source releases than are offered on the homepage.
 * [http://www.vex.net/~x/fte_tips.html FTE Tips]
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 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmzxPZj-kNQ Gregg Young's Warpstock 2016 talk] - Focuses mainly on eFTE2
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEaqdSJM2h0 Gregg Young's Warpstock 2013 talk on eFTE/2]
-==Publications==
-;Reviews
-* [[Andy Pitonyak]]: [[FTE Version 0.46b5]] - A part of the "A Programmer's Editor Shootout" series of articles.
-* David Mertz: [http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/review_fte.html A review of FTE for OS/2] (2000).
-==License and availability==
-* Open source software released under either the [[Artistic License]] or [[GPL v2]], older versions were under the GPL v2 only.
-==Authors==
-*Marko Macek (Original author)
-*[[Darin McBride]] (Post 2000 updates + maintained OS/2 and AIX ports)
-*Zdeněk Kabeláč (Last known FTE maintainer)
-*[[Gregg Young]] (eFTE2 author)
-*Jeremy Cowgar
-*Lauri Nurmi
-*Timo Sirainen
 [[Category:Text editors]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Software written in C++]]