Crimson Editor

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Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor 3.70
Developer:	Ingyu Kang
Latest release:	3.70 / September 22, 2004
OS:	Windows
Use:	Text editor
License:	GPL
Website:	www.crimsoneditor.com

Crimson Editor is a freeware source-available text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. Many of the features and user interfaces are similar to that of EditPlus, most noticeably Windows shell integration, tabbed document interface, syntax highlighting, multiple undo/redo, column mode editing, bracket matching, auto-indentation, spell checking, direct editing of text files in FTP and the integration with compilers. Unicode (although only for Latin characters) and various newlines are supported.

In addition, Crimson Editor supports the use of macros, which can be found in applications like Microsoft Office. The built-in calculator can evaluate simple expressions. Basic mathematics functions, like those found in the standard C library, and date functions are also available.

In April 2006, the question was reopened on the Crimson Editor forum as to whether a new version would be created, since no version had been released since September 2004, and several attempts to contact the author had gone unanswered. In December 29, 2006, Ingyu Kang finally posted a message announcing Crimson Editor as an open source project.

A ground-up rewrite based on Crimson Editor, led by a forum member 'Pete Spicer', was started before the December 29th announcement that the Crimson Editor source code would be made public. The rewritten version has been named Emerald Editor and will be released as open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is being developed for use on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD. As of January 2007, it is still in early development and binary versions are not available for download.

[edit] Release history

Version 2.21 (July 12, 1999) - fixed several bugs, and added some features
Version 2.30 (August 5, 1999) - improved user interface
Version 3.00 (April 20, 2001) - major update, all subroutines were checked and revised
Version 3.02 (April 26, 2001) - fixed some bugs
Version 3.10 (May 7, 2001) - appended missing functions
Version 3.20 (June 25, 2001) - lots of small changes
Version 3.21 (June 26, 2001) - emergent patch
Version 3.25 (August 30, 2001) - bug fixed and small changes
Version 3.31 (October 25, 2001) - a lot of changes
Version 3.32 (October 31, 2001) - emergent patch
Version 3.40 (December 25, 2001) - enhanced features
Version 3.45 R2 (August 26, 2002) - upgraded search & replace
Version 3.50 Release (June 3, 2003) - column mode editing
Version 3.51 Release (June 11, 2003) - bug fix update
Version 3.60 Release (February 9, 2004) - project management
Version 3.70 Release (September 22, 2004) - unicode encoding, splitter window