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Name	Folding Text Editor
Version	2011-07-08
Vendor
Author	Marko Macek (Original author) Darin McBride (OS/2 and AIX ports) Zdeněk Kabeláč (maintainer) 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.

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

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

0.46b5 (2000-01-23)
2001-08-19 - DOS binary release
2002-03-24 - OS/2 binary release (EMX and VisualAge C++ builds), Linux release
2005-01-08 - MS Windows 32-bit binary release
2005-11-15 - DOS build: fte0501.zip
2005-11-20
- OS/2 - OpenWatcom build: fte20060126.zip
2011-07-08 - Released as source code only

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

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 {{Software
 |Name=Folding Text Editor
-|Version=
+|Version=2011-07-08
-|Vendor=
+|Author=Marko Macek (Original author)<br/>[[Darin McBride]] (OS/2 and AIX ports)<br/>Zdeněk Kabeláč (maintainer)<br/>Jeremy Cowgar<br/>Lauri Nurmi<br/>Timo Sirainen
-|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.
-[[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==
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 * text-mode or presentation manager
 * configuration compiler (cfte)
-===Modes===
+;Modes:Files can be opened in different modes. The default is PLAIN. Smart indent mode can be activated for C and REXX.
-Files can be opened in different modes. The default is PLAIN.
+;Syntax Highlighting:Syntax colouring can be configured by command '''colorize'''.
-Smart indent mode can be activated for C and REXX.
+: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'''.
-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
+Note that up until around 2000 the software had fairly ordinary version numbers but the main author stopped mostly using them at 0.46.x and started using release dates instead, current source code release is roughly 0.51.x.
-* [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?sh=1&button=Search&key=/eFTE2 eFTE v1.0] (2016-05-30)
+*0.46b5 (2000-01-23)
-;FTE
+*2001-08-19 - DOS binary release
-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.
+*2002-03-24 - OS/2 binary release ([[EMX]] and [[VisualAge C++]] builds), [[Linux]] release
-* Last known version: 20110708 - Released as source code only
+*2005-01-08 - [[MS Windows]] 32-bit binary release
-* 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 [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/editors/fte20060126.zip of 20060126]
+*2005-11-15 - DOS build: [http://info.elf.stuba.sk/packages/pub/pc/utiltext/fte0501.zip fte0501.zip]
-* Last known [[MS Windows]] 32 bit binary release is 20050108
+*2005-11-20
-* 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 [https://www.qwant.com/?q=fte0501.zip fte0501.zip]
+** OS/2 - OpenWatcom build: [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/editors/fte20060126.zip fte20060126.zip]
+*2011-07-08 - Released as source code only
 ;Add-ons
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 * [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]
-;eFTE2
-* [http://trac.netlabs.org/efte/wiki eFTE2 on Netlabs]
-* [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]
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