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| Stable release | 8.3.3[1] 
/ 10 December 2004 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | Archived September 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine |
Alphatk is a text editor that was originally inspired by the Mac OS-only editor, "Alpha", which was written in C, but Alphatk was rewritten in Tcl[2] to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.
Alphatk is most useful for:
- programmers of more than 40 different supported programming languages.
- those writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents; and
- those editing HTML source files.
Called "a more pleasant alternative to Emacs",[3] Alphatk has very rich features to aid in writing and editing of the supported files types. As well as being useful for creating and editing such documents, Alphatk provides a host of facilities for communicating with compilers, diff, patch, version control systems, FTP sites, websites, etc.
A large part of Alphatk's functionality is provided by the open-source AlphaTcl library of code. There are several hundred thousand lines of code.
References
[edit]- ^ "Alphatk news". Archived from the original on 5 February 2009.
- ^ "ANN: Alphatk text editor 8.0fc1".
- ^ "Indispensable Applications". 11 December 2004. Archived from the original on 2015-09-14.
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