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STARBASE'S CODEWRIGHT 6.5
Are you an engineer who enjoys working with the least common denominator of editors - the kind that comes with your IDE? Do you accept the defaults given to you by expensive usability labs that cater to rookie Visual Basic programmers? Accept your calling as a true engineer: use a stand-alone editor! I've been using Codewright since version 1 came out for 16-bit Windows years ago. As of this writing, version 6.6 is in the works, and the product has acquired a huge array of features. I doubt I've used even 10 percent of them, so instead I'll focus on the features I rely on heavily.
Codewright comes with everything that you expect from a serious editing tool these days: template expansion, symbol browsing, syntax coloring, version control integration, automatic code formatting, and pointless emulation of VI. It's difficult to break completely free of the IDE, so Codewright provides project and edit window auto-synching. Recently some useful new things have been added, such as an embedded spreadsheet-style...