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CREdit - by Friends-of-FPC
CREdit is a freeware editor for programmers. It is still in development but already advanced enough to work with. And to be perfectly honest, I only used it for one week, so don't take this test for gospel, I'm only giving my "first sight" report. But I think you either love an editor at first sight or you'll never use it ;)
Back to CREdit. The whole Editor is about 1.3 MB which makes it nice and small. As I wanted to use it as a FPC IDE, my first action was installing the Syntax Highlighting for Pascal, setting up the FPC as tool and compiling a test application. Total time from install to compile: 5 minutes. Nice.
And the good news keep comming. Bookmarks inside a document are as well possible as multiple instances of the editor. You can set own colors for nearly everything, not only text but the whole editor. Everything seems stable and though it states that it's under construction the editor never crashed on me.
But I'm afraid there are a few minor things that bugged me. First of all, the menus are not very intuitive IMHO. They take some time to get used to. On the other hand: what doesn't? Secondly you can only assign executable files as tool. No help files and the like. There are no templates for opening certain file types and I haven't found a way to add or edit the toolbars.
But hey, there you have the "under construction". Wait a little while and hopefully you'll find everything you need. And it's for free, so no real moaning about the price. People who like the VC++ IDE will love it anyway.
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