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>>I already made a comment about the VC environment, but how about using a wp
>>with programmable extensions to do what your suggesting? Word with VB 4
>>Apps comes to mind, but there are plenty of others - TextPad, by Helios;
>
>I have already suggested privately to a couple of people that they
>investigate the editor that I use with Clipper. It is called MultiEdit and a
>free evaluation version is available at http://www.amcyber.com/ It
>dynamically checks brace matching and finishes common command structures
>such as if/else/endif, do case/case/endcase etc for Clipper. Menu selection
>of other language structures. Can compile within app and return to offending
>line, etc. DOS and Windows versions available.

  ahmmmm..... what about emacs?  infinitely customizable, runs on
Win32/Unix/Linux/VMS...  Emacs has "modes" for c, c++, asm, lisp, python,
java, html, etc.  Plus it's *free*, and better, Billy doesn't get your
money!  Unfortunately, "real" emacs won't run on DOS, but there are some
lightweight versions of emacs that will run on DOS.

  Another somewhat customizable multi-platformed editor is JED.

  The last editor I paid money for was Brief 2.0, and that was in about
1987.  Emacs is good enough that I will never buy an editor again.

  Jeff
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