FTE

Originally known as Folding Text Editor, but later just released under its initials, FTE is a multi-platform programmer's folding text editor

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.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

• FTE homepage - on SourceForge, note that the project page has much newer source releases than are offered on the homepage.

Syntax highlighting

FTE has support for syntax highlighting, 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 it presents itself as a configurable state machine.

Publications

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).

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 (Current maintainer)