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Alphatk is a powerful, multi-modal, highly configurable, and programmable text editor. It's also completely cross-platform, running natively on Windows, MacOS X and Unix (X11). Please explore through the links above...

Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents, and for editing of HTML source files. It has very rich features to aid in writing and editing files of those document types. It supports more than 40 different programming languages. As well as being useful for creating and editing such documents, Alphatk provides a host of facilities for communicating with compilers, diff, patch, version control systems, ftp sites, web sites, etc.

A lengthy feature list can be accessed here: Features

User's opinions:

"Thank you. Alphatk is fabulous. I now use it exclusively for html editing. I own greek-language.com, and your software has made maintaining the site much easier."

"By the way, just to let you know: I use AlphaTk every day, all the day (I'm working on TeX files and text files more generally): rock-solid application."

"I am very pleased to have again access to Alpha in a "native format" on my Mac OS X. I had been sorely missing this editor since I moved to this new operating system... Keep up the good work!"

Recent releases:

December 2004 -- Alphatk 8.3.3 has been released

The final release of Alphatk 8.3.3 is now available. These fix a very large number of problems, as listed in the change log. In particular, command-line support is now much improved, and some lost-focus bugs on MacOS X have been fixed (although some still remain). Also substantial improvements have been made to the TeX interactions, and many other modes. XHTML support is now included. On Windows XP, the native XP widgets are now used, for a better overall look and feel.

July 2003 -- Alphatk 8.3d6 has been released

Early development releases of Alphatk 8.3 are now available. These require Tcl/Tk 8.4 and fix a number of small problems, as listed in the change log. In particular, command-line support is now much improved, and some lost-focus bugs on MacOS X have been fixed.

January 2003 -- Alphatk 8.2 has been released

Standalone versions for MacOS X, Windows are available, and a cross-platform starkit works Unix as well.

There are many improvements since version 8.1, including: much improved dialogs on MacOS X, icons as menu titles (MacOS X), native drag-n-drop of text to and from windows (on Windows/Unix only), rectangular selections and contextual menus, improved support for split windows. Remote editing of 'Wiki' and TIP archives is now possible. Code folding is now enabled. Configurable mode-dependent word-wrapping (either no wrapping, hard-wrapping, of simply visual wrapping by characters or words). Syntax colouring is now faster and more accurate. Key-bindings work better across foreign keyboards. Better native keybindings.

A number of known, minor problems, mostly cosmetic, still remain on MacOS X. These will be addressed in a future release.

Feb 11th, 2002 -- Alphatk 8.1 available!

The final release of 8.1 is now available. There are many fixes and improvements over previous releases..

May 16th, 2001 -- Alphatk 8.0 available!

Alphatk 8.0 is now available. A variety of small bugs have been fixed since the 8.0fc4 release. Work will now commence on a variety of new features for 8.1.

August 8th, 2000 -- final version of Alphatk 7.3 released.

This is the first full public release of Alphatk, the premier scriptable cross-platform editor for HTML, Java, Tcl, C++, TeX, Perl and other languages. It will run on any platform for which Tcl/Tk versions 8.1 or newer are available (i.e. most Unix platforms, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, and MacOS).

Alphatk 7.3 and 8.x have a retail price of US$40, and are available immediately. To use Alphatk, you must purchase a license to Alphatk through Kagi's online services. Please note that Alphatk is not Alpha. Alpha is a separate product written by Pete Keleher, running on MacOS. If you use MacOS a lot in addition to Windows or Unix, you will probably want to buy both products.

Use the above links to learn more about Alphatk.