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Tame Your Unruly Code

 

Now everyone can afford the power
of Multi-Edit with Multi-Edit Lite

MeLite 2008 Info Page

MeLS System Requirements

30 MB of available drive space
256 MB RAM recommended 128 MB minimal
Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP

Multi-Edit Lite 2008 is developed and designed sepecifically for Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP. Multi-Edit 2008 installed on prior versions of Windows may not operate properly and will not be supported by MESI.

Disk space requirements are approximately 11 MB (assuming you install everything). Intellimouse support requires that you have the Microsoft Intellimouse.




What is MeL 2008?
Multi-Edit Lite 2008 is a programmer's text editor with powerful features designed to deliver the ease of operation and timesaving functions you need to meet demanding deadlines. A powerful tool at a great price.

With Multi-Edit Lite 2008, now provides JAWS for Windows version 8 & 9 integration support. With JAWS for Windows, Multi-Edit users can now take advantage of all the support for visually impaired users.

You will not spend a lot of time getting up to speed with Multi-Edit Lite 2008 either. You will be doing productive work very quickly with the aid of our intuitive user interface. Drop down menus and special Key Assignments are available that will help you execute commands in a heartbeat. Plus, features like our smart indent, template editing, and construct matching make our language support second to none. Comparing files within Multi-Edit Lite 2008 is simple and powerful! And Multi-Edit Lite 2008's Help System and Technical Support guarantees you will never encounter a problem without a solution near at hand.


Features Include:

Leave your mouse Alone
Nearly all dialogs, menus, toolbars and files can now be accessed via keyboard navigation.

New Command Maps
Three new Command Maps have been added including: UltraEdit, EMACS & Windows (MS standard).

Collapse Mode
Collapse mode allows you to view and edit a file in an outline-style format. Users can choose only to view lines that start at columns less-than-or-equal-to 8, or perhaps you only want to see lines that contain the word "ERROR."

Definable Search Filters
Extreme file search capability with the usage of Perl Regular Expressions. Search across 100's of files, search and replace or file search and replace in no time at all. Perform simple literal text searches to advanced search and replace strings with use of three Regular Expression types. No other editor can compare with the flexibility and power.

Multiple Monitor Environment
MeL2008 now supports use of multiple monitor environments and allows for switching back to single display mode without any grief.

Visual Tabs and Spaces
With MeLite 2008 you can easily display Tabs, Spaces & Virtual Spaces.

Ruby
Complete Ruby language support has been added along with support for XML-style standalone tag termination.

Maximum Editing Windows
Maximum number of editing windows has been increased to 2048.

Tip of the Day
Tip of the Day entries have been updated with new and updated tips to improve your use of Multi-Edit Lite 2008.

Revert To Saved
New Revert to Saved file menu option.

XP Style
Support has been added to allow ME dialog controls to use the new XP styles when the Windows XP theme is selected.

Virtual Space
The Multi-Edit Lite 2008 virtual space character has been changed from the 0xFF to the 0x01 character which now resolves any Russian character issues.

File Lists with Filter Support
New generic file lists with filter support for listing Project files and tag files. Allows navigation file lists without having to use the mouse.

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Additional Features Include:

With MeL2008, you get Intelligent Language Support features like:

  • Smart Indenting, code templates, brace/construct matching and auto-commenting, as you type!
  • Language sensitive code highlighting, for any language!
  • Function tagging. " Supports ASP, Ada, Aspect, BASIC, VB, Batch, CSS, PERL, Java, Javascript, FORTRAN, Delphi, and many others. You can also add your OWN LANGUAGE support!
  • Enhanced HTML support.
  • Tag highlighting.


Extensible support for over fifty languages!

  • MeL2008's extensible language support comes installed right out of the box


MeL2008 can be customized for the individual user.

  • Keyboard mappings, menus can be imitated and fully customized
  • Change fonts, colors, screen layout and even toolbars, all from one easy interface.
  • All dialogs are resizable.


Editing Features that increase your programming prowess

  • concurrently edit up to 255 DOS, UNIX, and Binary files of any size with line lengths of up to 16k!
    Now that's power!
  • RegEx support? Just like his bigger brother ME2008, MeL2008 features extensive search and replace options with full Regular Expressions support.
  • Search in multiple files across directories and drives.
  • Incremental search will find text as you type. And once your text is found, it's highlighted throughout the entire file.


Programming back and forth between positions in a file?
Use MeL2008's bookmark feature.

  • Mark and return to any position in your file quickly, simply.
  • Collapse code that you don't need to view, further speeding up your browsing.
  • Collapse tags and functions
    (this feature dependant on the language you are programming in)


File comparing and merging

  • MeL2008 comes with it's own file/compare/merge utility


MeLite utilizes multiple clipboards

  • For those of you that have a lot of things going at once, we've got you covered. Try our multiple clipboards. Floating or docked, you decide!


POWER POWER POWER!

  • Automatically align operators on multiple lines with one keystroke.
  • Support included for PC, Unix/Linux, and Mac line terminators.
  • "On-the-Fly" text template expansion makes every coding effort almost effortless
  • Manipulate large sections of text with extensive block operations.
  • Even perform arithmetic on a block of text or fill an entire area with whatever you want!


Need to get down and dirty?

  • MeL2008 allows you to flip into Hex mode and see your files for what they really are.


Find yourself doing the same thing, day in and day out, over and over?

  • MeL2008 will bring a smile to your face the first time you record a keystroke macro and watch it playback, at full speed, or recorded speed.
  • Automate an unlimited number of tasks with MeL's editable keystroke macros.
  • And that isn't all that's unlimited; undo and redo as far back as when you opened the file.


Doing some HTML coding?

  • With MeL2008, launch an URL from within the very file your editing.
  • You can even launch another program with 'exec:'
  • or parse URL's like http://www.multieditsoftware.com
    Just right click on a link and away you go!


Syntax highlighting code is great on the screen, but what if you want to print your code?

  • MeL2008 features color code highlighting that will work with your color printer. Now you can see it on paper!


Special Programmers tools included with MeL2008 are:

  • a Pop-Up ASCII Chart
  • a Movable Text Ruler
  • And a tool for drawing Lines and Boxes


History Auto-Completion

  • When you're filling out text boxes save valuable time by bringing up prior text


Complete 'My Computer' tree from the file/open prompt

  • Drag-n-drop, delete or rename files from the 'My Computer' tree