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   Review - WinPTE

   3.00.440 Beta (Mar 3, 2005)

   I code in C++, VB, and VBA mostly these days and was looking for a text editor that would make my life easier. I tried many and finally stumbled on WinPTE in a Google search. I am so glad I did! The support from the developer in phenomenal and respose to questions is lightning fast!
   
   Since I started using WinPTE my coding is much faster due to the many built-in keyboard shortcuts and other features.
   
   There are MANY keyboard shortcuts to include such things as Ctrl+Enter (completes line with quotes, if applicable, and line continuation character and moves you to start of next line), Alt+Enter (re-align line), Ctrl+L (inline variable declaration. Puts variable in declares and returns you to the line with the variable inserted), Ctrl+s***+D (Auto clean up of unused variables), Alt+J (Join next line with current removing white space), and MANY others.
   
   WinPTE auto flows comments allowing you to start typing a comment and it will automatically keep it within the margins adding new lines (with comment character) as needed. I use ALLOT of comments in my code and this feature alone has saved me an enormous amount of time in formatting comments.
   
   WinPTE has auto-completion of variables, to include local variables, and many standard statements. For instance for VB/Lotus script it will automatically complete FOR, WHILE and DO. Just type END space and if the closest un-closed statement is DO, the end is changed to LOOP, likewise FOR will result in NEXT and WHILE in WEND.
   
   Another feature I find VERY useful is bracket matching. Most of my code involves complex statements with many nested decision trees; this feature has saved me countless hours of debugging! Along with bracket matching WinPTE will also automatically create the matching closing bracket when you type the opening bracket, this features helps you to keep your bracketing consistent.
   
   There are MANY more features of this editor which are beyond a mini review such as this but suffice it to say this is now the editor I use day to day and has made it possible for me to decrease my turn around time substantially!
   
   Try it and you will see what I mean!