Alphatk Explained

Alphatk
Operating System:	Cross-platform
Genre:	Text editor
License:	Proprietary software

Alphatk is a text editor that was originally inspired by the Mac OS-only editor, "Alpha", which was written in C, but Alphatk was rewritten in Tcl^[1] to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.

Alphatk is most useful for:

• programmers of more than 40 different supported programming languages.
• those writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents; and
• those editing HTML source files.

Called "a more pleasant alternative to Emacs",^[2] Alphatk has very rich features to aid in writing and editing of the supported files types. 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, websites, etc.

A large part of Alphatk's functionality is provided by the open-source AlphaTcl library of code. There are several hundred thousand lines of code.

External links

• Web site: Alphatk . 2005-09-18 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20090906070107/http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/Alphatk.html . 2009-09-06 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: ANN: Alphatk text editor 8.0fc1.
2. Web site: Indispensable Applications . 11 December 2004 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20150914180551/http://crookedtimber.org/2004/12/11/indispensible-applications/ . 2015-09-14 .