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Title: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
Post by: CodeTRUCKER 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.

Title: Re: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
Post by: tabletguy 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.

Title: Re: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
Post by: CodeTRUCKER on December 11, 2007, 09:33 AM

Thanks for your input.  You are right about the plethora of freeware.

Title: Re: Multi-Edit on Sale until Dec. 17
Post by: wraith808 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.