VEDIT

Vedit

Screenshot of Vedit 6.15.1
Developer(s) Greenview Data, Inc.
Stable release 6.24.2 / 2015-01-12
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type Text editor
License Proprietary
Website http://www.vedit.com

Vedit is a commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS from Greenview Data, Inc.

Vedit was one of the pioneers in visual editing.[1] Today, it is a powerful and feature-rich general-purpose text editor. Vedit can edit any file, including binary files and huge multi-gigabyte files. Still it is compact and extremely fast,[2] perhaps because it is written mostly in Assembly language.

History

Technology

The DOS version of Vedit was written 100% in Assembly language. The exe file size is only 158k.

The Windows version was written mostly in Assembly, but the user interface has been written in C. The size of exe file is 573k, and no DLLs are used.

Vedit uses its own file buffering which is faster than the virtual memory of Windows. In addition, it uses very little of Windows' resources. When editing large files, only part of the file is loaded in the memory at a time and temporary files are created only as needed. Thus, dozens of gigabyte files can be open simultaneously on 32-bit Windows,[5] and even a multi-gigabyte file is opened in a fraction of a second.

Therefore Vedit loads very fast and executes all operations fast. And since it does not utilize Windows resources, it does not slow down the other applications.

Features

Documentation

Vedit comes with comprehensive Online help and interactive Tutorial.
In addition, there are two PDF manuals: User's Manual (449 pages) and Macro Language Manual (305 pages). The manuals are available as printed books, too.

Greenview Data offers full email and phone support for customers. More support can be found from the User Forum.

Limitations

See also

References

  1. Greenview Data Inc. (2000). "20 Years of Vedit". Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  2. The World Community Press (June 24, 2002). "Search and Replace". Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  3. Daneliuk, Tim (1983), "VEDIT, text editor for CP/M operating systems", InfoWorld 5 (20): 64–67
  4. Greenview Data Inc. (2008). "CP/M Agreement". Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  5. "VEdit EBCDIC Level 4". Comco, Inc. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  6. Calzada, John (2007). "Computer Auditor Processing Tools". State Board of Equalization (California). Retrieved 2008-02-29.
  7. Rosetta Code (25 October 2008). "Vedit macro language". Retrieved 2008-12-11.

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