Alpha

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Alpha is a simple 32-bit, multi-document, configurable, highlighting and analysing editor for 370 and 386 assembler, Pascal, C, PL/X, FORTRAN, and related languages.

Features

Editor view

• Provides basic browse/edit functions.
  • Copy, cut and paste.
  • Box mode {column mode} select as well as line mode.
  • Special character insert for diagrams etc.
  • Display characters at the current cursor position in Hex.
• Invokes the appropriate compiler.
• Cross-references labels.
• Searches files in a directory for a string.
• Displays the program call structure.
• Highlights keywords, comments etc.
• Suppression of selected lines and comments.
• Matches BEGIN/END pairs.
• Record/playback keystrokes.
• Expands the procedure call in a secondary window.
• Search of compiler include paths.
• Conversion to upper or lower case.
• Clearing selected areas to blanks.
• Tab expansion.
• Customization for highlighting and language support.
• Bookmark support.
• Analyse 32-bit ".EXE" and ".DLL" files and dis-assemble the code object.
• Display a file in hexadecimal and characters.
• Automatically save a file after n changes.
• Automatically indent new lines.
• Compare two files and create a composite file.
• Edit/analyse an arbitrary number of files at a time.
• Simple spell checker.

Author: Lionel de Lambert