Alphatk

Last updated
Alphatk
Stable release
8.3.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 10 December 2004
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.

References

  1. "Alphatk news". Archived from the original on 5 February 2009.
  2. "ANN: Alphatk text editor 8.0fc1".
  3. "Indispensable Applications". 11 December 2004. Archived from the original on 2015-09-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)