Future Wave Editor
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Name | Future Wave Editor |
Version | 2.25 (2001) |
Vendor | Future Wave Limited |
Author | Shigenori Takeda |
Licence | Shareware |
WWW | archived (2008) |

The Future Wave Editor is a small but deceptively powerful programmers editor from the Japanese company Future Wave Limited.
Features
- The file size is unlimited and you can edit up to 12 files at the same time. (Up to 10,000,000 lines can be edited.)
- Only on DBCS systems: full DBCS support, you can edit EUC and JIS encoded files.
- Unlimited undo and redo.
- Customizable (Environment, Key Assignment, Keyword Setting) Environments (language compiler support etc.) can be automatically changed by file extensions.
- Syntax highlighting customizable by keywords, included definitions for C/C++, Basic, Java, Pascal and REXX
- Support for REXX macros.
- Built-in grep. (search for strings in multiple files)
- Regular expressions can be used in Search, Replace, and grep.
- A function to run external programs
- Help features of APIs can be displayed with the Help of Toolkit, etc.
- Powerful support for program development (displays a list of functions, jumps to corresponding parentheses).
Version
- 1.95
- 2.00
- 2.01
- 2.10 (1999)
- 2.20 (May 1999)
- 2.22 (Aug 1999)
- 2.25 (Jan 2000) - FWE225.LZH Japanese, fwe225.zip English
Requires: OS/2 Warp Version 3 or higher
Language Support
- English - Built in.
- Japanese - Built in.
- Russian - Separate (fwerus.zip), translation done by Alex Slyotov (Only works with the English edition).