tease :: sourceforge

the text editor for the frantic developer!

Tease is a text editor written in tcl/tk for use on win32 systems and unix. It is designed for developers and development-support types who want to have a common, intuitable, and fast editor across O/S's. Bookmarks and command menus and configuration are the new features comprising the 1.3.1 release.

The new features in 1.3.1 are:

bookmarks menu and configuration window, including a post-open action such as sort, decrypt, or run
command menu and configuration area allowing variables %FILE% (full file path), %NAME%, %DIR%, and %EXT%. Sample win32 commands for command prompt and explorer included.

What we're already packin'...

fast context-menu commenting, including mutli-line comments (/* */, , etc)
single-window or separate GUI modes
easy-configurable filetype/comment window
fast upper-and-lower-casing of selected text
output panel with one-click script execution (in unix AND windows!)
show/hide tcl console on win32
detailed color selection (text, bg, selection)
native tcl tail-f
expanded line sort options (increasing/decreasing/unique)
excellent search/replace, including replace all, regexp search, and search all in single mode
unlimited undo/redo (thank you, tcl 8.4!)
ASCII-text-based encryption
basic printing capability on win32
"recent files" quick load
line-based load routine, so you can start to read large files immediately

...and here's what's coming down the pipe:

menu addons for version control systems like RCS, CVS, SVN, et al
additional text-manip power tools like grep, cut, etc
incorporation of TclDES encryption
easy filetype association management
CLI operations (sorting, filtering) on file batches
Russian language/internationalization/multiple encoding support
better printing (auto-wrapping, unix printing)
oh yeah, context highlighting...

A note regarding tease's encryption-- it is neither unbreakable nor guaranteed to prevent serious attackers. It will give you good protection against the amateur crypto hacks like myself, and will at least buy a little bit of time against brute force attacks. The package was written with the intent of storing internet & network passwords in one common, reasonably safe file. Again, against any determined, competent attack, this crypto code will probably not hold up for long. But it's adequate for my purposes. I'm not sure if this feature will be targeted for upgrading to stronger forms of encryption or not.

I know, the last thing the world needs is another freakin' text editor. But when you can't find what you know you want to have, you've either got to roll your own, pay someone to do it, or go play scrabble.