Qwined Technical Editor

List of Features
The award-winning Qwined Technical Editor is a sophisticated editing tool officially Logo Tested for the latest Windows operating systems. In addition to ordinary HTML, XML, PHP, C/C++/C#, SQL and scripting languages, it supports nearly one hundred other file formats out-of-the box. More than any other editor today.

  • Code Folding
    • Fold any Function or Structure (C/C++)
    • Collapse All and Expand All
  • UNICODE Support
    • Support for UTF-8 and conversions to/from UTF-8 and UTF-8 Cookie
    • UCS 2 Big Endian
    • UCS 2 Little Endian
    • Support for setting code page and locale
    • Code page used for Unicode conversions
  • Multi-byte Support
  • Syntax Highlighting – user configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, PHP and Perl
    • Nearly 100 programming languages and configuration file formats supported out of the box
    • Support for syntax highlighting based on file name
  • Word Autocompletion
    • Multiple word files included in the distribution package
    • When invoked all the keywords from the Syntax Highlighting will be available in the list (if the file uses Syntax Highlighting)
    • A user specified file may be used to provide the strings for Autocompletion
  • Symbol Completion
    • User configurable per language
  • Drag & Drop, Copy/Cut - Paste
    • Accept multiple files
    • Full Drag & Drop editing
  • Copy full path of the file to clipboard
  • Open containing folder and open command prompt in the containing folder
  • Allows different background colors
  • Configurable colors, fonts and sound effects
  • Support to highlight words beginning with a specified sub-string
  • Open named file or web address by selected string
  • Regular expression searches
  • Automatic highlighting of brackets/braces as typing or positioning occurs
  • Highlight based on Line/Col Background
  • User configurable match strings
  • Recursive Find in Files
  • Configurable Block and Stream comments
    • Supports different commenting for different languages
    • Comment / Uncomment toggle
  • Split/Join Paragraphs
  • User configurable Abbreviations
    • Insert / Expand Abbreviation
  • Add/Remove line comments to selected lines
  • Configurable tool support (Run compiler, etc.)
  • Save/Load Sessions
    • Stores information of the opened files and cursor locations
  • Save-as in multiple formats
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • RTF
    • XML
    • LaTeX
    • ZIP
  • MAPI email support
    • Send as attachment
    • Send as PDF attachment
    • Send as ZIP attachment
  • Reformatting of existing code to indent/unindent based on language
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  • Database handling features
    • Disk based text editing
    • Supports files in excess of 4GB
    • Minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files
  • Insert string at every increment (ideal for formatting DB records and inserting hard returns)
  • Column/block editing
    • Allows insertion/removal of columns of data
    • Insert line numbers
  • Open multiple files at once from the file open dialog and command line
  • File Revert to Saved
  • Save, Save As, Save Copy, Send to Folder
  • Edit Linux/UNIX/MAC files without any conversion required (^n/^r used in find/replace for LF/CR)
  • Support for rename of files
  • Windows Explorer Integration
    • Right click on file and open
  • Open of Unicode paths via Drag and Drop from Explorer
  • Edit files containing nulls (HEX 00) in text mode
  • Printing Features
  • Multi-level undo and redo
  • Multiple tab positions
  • Cut, Copy, Copy as RTF and Paste support
  • Insert/Overstrike mode with cursor and status bar indication
  • Read-Only default option and Options menu item
  • Word wrap support
  • Auto-Indentation
  • Home Key positions at first non-space, then first character
  • Double click selects a word
  • Triple click selects a line
  • Search Features Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace and Replace All
  • Recursive Find in Files with Regular Expressions support
  • Find matching braces
  • Goto line number or page
  • Bookmarks
    • Bookmarks saved (optionally)
    • Go to previous bookmark
    • Clear all bookmarks
  • Regular Expression support for 0 or more occurrences using ++
  • Option for Unix style Regular Expressions
  • Option (default) to automatically find selected text with find Next/Prev
  • Option (default) for find dialog to use word under cursor
  • Configurable '^' character for find/replace
  • Preserve Case Replace to preserve the case of a word when being replaced
  • View/hide toolbar and/or status bar
  • TABS to select between open files
  • View/hide output window
  • View Menu includes option to show Page Breaks as line across the screen
  • Ability to hide and unhide selected portions of text
  • Set display and/or printer fonts independently, or use display font for printing, reset default fonts
  • Zoom in/out by increasing/decreasing font size (Ctrl –Mouse Scroll)
  • Line numbers based on real lines not wrapped lines
  • Show spaces, tabs and new lines
  • Viewing with line numbers on left side of window
  • Configurable status bar line & column number display
  • Pop-up menus with right mouse button
  • Status bar displays number of characters selected
  • Full Screen mode
  • Convert CR/LF's to Word Wrap (removes CR/LF's from file)
  • Convert Word Wrap to CR/LF's allowing word wrap to be written to file with hard returns
  • Text conversion to lower or upper case
  • Automatic line indentation (add, remove)
  • Run DOS command
  • Run Windows program
  • Tab settings
  • Separate indent and tab stop setting
  • Option for Qwined to always be on top of all other displayed windows
  • Many more options available for user to set personal preferences
  • Previous/next window (Ctrl-PgDown, Ctrl-PgUp)
  • Show output window/output window resizable
  • WYSIWYG File Preview
  • IntelliMouse scrolling support
  • Drag and drop support from the Windows Explorer
  • Qwined retains its screen position each time it is used
  • Many keyboard shortcuts including - positioning, Next/Previous paragraph etc.
  • And lots more...

For more information, please take a look at the Key Features and Change History.


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