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Author Topic: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17  (Read 4392 times)

CodeTRUCKER

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Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
« on: December 10, 2007, 12:12 PM »
Heads-up!

Multi-Edit is on sale at Programmer's Paradise!  The ad looks pretty impressive for anyone in the market for this type of app.
« Last Edit: May 13, 2009, 10:41 AM by CodeTRUCKER »

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Re: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2007, 06:00 AM »
I've been using Multi-Edit since version 5, many years ago. Its original strength (IMO) was its support for Dbase and Clipper programming, as well as a few others.

It has an extensive macro language, and the macro source comes with.

I own the current version, but a few months after upgrading, I discovered that it doesn't support unicode. So, if you try to edit items with, for example, Chinese characters, you get garbage. I wrote to them about this, and they said they had no plans to ever add support for Unicode. Since I now work on a lot of items in China, and other places, this means I only use it infrequently these days.

I don't recomment getting it, because many free editors will do much the same, although perhaps the free ones don't match the breadth of languages supported.

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Re: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2007, 09:33 AM »
Thanks for your input.  You are right about the plethora of freeware.
« Last Edit: May 13, 2009, 10:43 AM by CodeTRUCKER »

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Re: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2007, 09:45 AM »
I've actually used ME for quite a while (an older version) and I do plan to upgrade.  While it is true that a lot of the features are in free versions- all of them are not, especially packaged in one product.  I've tried quite a few freeware products, and none of them match it; you have to go to a pay product to get the wealth of features in one place.