Alphatk
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 Alphatk's menubar, Readme file showing an incremental search for 'alpha' in progress |
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| Latest release | 8.3.3 |
| Preview release | 8.5 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Text editor |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/Alphatk.html |
Alphatk is a text editor that was originally inspired by the Mac OS-only editor, "Alpha", but which extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.
Alphatk is most useful for:
- programmers using C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more;
- those writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents; and
- those editing HTML source files.
It has very rich features to aid in writing and editing files of those document types, and supports more than 40 different programming languages. As well as being useful for creating and editing such documents, Alphatk provides a host of facilities for communicating with compilers, diff, patch, version control systems, ftp sites, websites, etc.
A large part of Alphatk's functionality is provided by the open-source AlphaTcl library of code. There are several hundred thousand lines of code, making Alphatk capable of dealing with each of the forty or so programming and markup languages.
