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Subject: ANN: AlphaTk version 7.3b2 - DN [1]

vincentdarley@my-deja.com - 25 Jan 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 I've been making regular updates to my Tcl-only editor, but haven't
 announced anything here for a while.  The latest version fixes a bunch
 of bugs, as ever, makes full use of the advanced 'glob' capability of
 Tcl 8.3 if installed, and adds full support for the HTML editing mode
 (many thanks to Johan Linde for updating that mode to work with Tcl
 8).  It adds optional support for multi-line searching in the text
 widgets which is a big improvement (although a little slow at times).

 You can download the software from (and check back every few weeks if
 you want the latest fixes):

 ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/

 cheers,

 Vince.

 More detailed information:

 What is AlphaTk?

 AlphaTk is a text editor.  It's most useful for programmers, those
 writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents, and for editing of HTML source
 files.  It has very rich features to aid in writing and editing files
 of those document types.  The programming languages strongly supported
 are C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab.  Most other common languages are
 also supported, although perhaps not with quite such a rich feature
 set.

 AlphaTk is written entirely in Tcl, the scripting and gui language
 developed by John Ousterhout (now at www.scriptics.com).  This means it
 is easily extendable, configurable etc.  Most aspects of its behaviour
 can be configured using various 'Preferences' dialogs.  If you can
 program in Tcl you can tweak it in any way you like.  However it is
 designed to be used by people who cannot program in Tcl.

 AlphaTk is a little like emacs, in that it is a very powerful text
 editor.  However it was designed with a graphical interface in mind
 (for many years Alpha was a MacOS only product written in C. This is
 effectively a re-implementation of Alpha by emulating its inner
 functionality in plain Tcl).

 AlphaTk is a shareware product.  This is the only way the author can
 justify the huge amount of time required to implement AlphaTk as a
 cross-platform editor using Tcl and the Tk toolkit.  Within the near
 future, you will be able to make payment with credit-card etc through
 one of the online services.  Until that time, pre-release versions of
 AlphaTk may be used for free.

 New releases will be made as frequently as is necessary to keep up with
 bug reports and feature requests.  Bug fixes and code contributions are
 much appreciated.

 AlphaTk would never have existed had it not been for Pete Keleher, the
 creator of 'Alpha', a MacOS only editor, and for the community of Alpha
 users who have contributed vast amounts of Tcl code which help make
 AlphaTk the powerful editor it now is.

 AlphaTk should run on Windows or Unix (on MacOS you can use Pete
 Keleher's editor Alpha which has approximately the same functionality).

 The ftp site for AlphaTk is <ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/>;

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