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What is MEdit?

MEdit is a programmable text editor.

The idea is to have an application that provides only bare-bone text editing interface (windows), without any commands. All commands are defined by the user in terms of scripts. This way, the functionality of the editor is limited only by imagination of the user. OK, also by his ability to write scripts.

The other idea is to have commands grouped into profiles, which will enable the user to switch between whole groups of commands. Also, it should be possible for the users to exchange profiles, if they think that the set of commands they created can be useful for other people.

The language of choice for MEdit is Tcl.
Tcl is a highly portable and expressive language and its Tk toolkit allows to easily write GUI-enabled apps.
The important implication of this choice is that the user scripts are also written in Tcl.

Why did I write it?

I wrote MEdit, because I could not find a text editor that would please me in all aspects.
Whatever editor I used, I had always some griefs about it:

• it used only one file encoding, which was usually not the one I wanted
• it had little functionality
• it had too many commands
• it did not backed up edited files
• it backed up files, but not when I wanted
• it backed up files, but not where I wanted
• it did not highlighted syntax
• it highlighted syntax, but not the way I wanted
• ...

See?

Why this name?

MEdit stands for "Maciej's Editor", but other interpretations are also allowed.

Copyright issues

The copyright and licensing stuff are quite novel.

MEdit is a rumourware.

It means, that if you want to use it, you have to tell your friends about it. Simple, isn't it?