What: ml tk editor
 Where: http://fastbase.co.nz/edit/ 
        http://countessmod.berlios.de/ml/ 
 Description: ML (aka mleditor) is designed for editing Tcl/Tk source files
        as well as other text files. The version at berlios is a modification
        of Campbell's work, plus some modifications.
        Currently at version 1.13 .
 Updated: 12/2001
 Contact: mailto:pc@acs.co.nz  (Peter Campbell)
        mailto:superlinux at usa dot net 

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'''Some features'''

 * Basic tcl syntax highlighting

 * Procedure window, select a procedure to go directly to it

 * Right click on a word to have the word "copied" to the "find" window

 * Multiple windows open simultaneously 

 * The editor can be invoked with file names on the command line, including wildcards (don't do too many)

 * The replace function

 * Undo/redo ([RA2] but strangely "no select all"

 * Brace matching - highlight matching braces when cursor is on a brace (also quotes & square brackets)

 * Goto line number (control-g or "view" menu)

 * Added "font larger/smaller" to the view menu; 20th June 02 (v1.09)

 * Changed window system so only opens 1 toplevel window, uses frames & packing for window/file selection

 * Added a splash screen on startup to show "loading file ..." (v1.10)

 * Added a "search - grep" function

 * Don't syntax highlight files at startup, do when they are first viewed

 * The most recent find/replace strings weren't being stored at the start of the find/replace history

 * To do list: 
 ** Reverse searching

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'''See also'''

[ML - Heavily Modified & Improved]

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'''Comments'''

[Robert Abitbol] Coding with Peter Campbell's ML editor is a real '''joy'''! It puts automatically colors to titles, comments, variables etc in the source code. This way, finding your way in your code and editing it is super easy with ML Editor! 

It is a very simple, very functional and very elegant app; in many ways reminiscent of Windows 98 Notepad but with an added bonus: a delightful possibility of working with many windows from '''within the program''', all windows are being called from the Window menu and closed on the File menu.  

In fact there are more added bonuses. A second one is that the program remembers what file you left in the directory and the next time you start the program in that directory, it loads that file. 

Contrary to Windows 98 which obstinately forces you to work in "My Documents" (what a terrible idea Microsoft people had!) and which gets you to "My Documents" no matter what, Peter Campbell's ML Editor gets you to the default data directory you choose.  

And you can search and replace and make a search of all documents in your directory for a key word. 

And all this for 770k! Well done Peter!

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