Alphatk | |
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Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Text editor |
License | Proprietary software |
Website | Archived September 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine |
Alphatk is a text editor that was originally inspired by the Mac OS-only editor, "Alpha", which was written in C, but Alphatk was rewritten in Tcl [2] to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.
Alphatk is most useful for:
Called "a more pleasant alternative to Emacs", [3] Alphatk has very rich features to aid in writing and editing of the supported files types. 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.
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