What is Alphatk?

Alphatk is a text editor.  It's most useful for programmers, 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.  The programming languages strongly supported
are C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab.  Most other common languages are
also supported, although perhaps not with quite such a rich feature
set.  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 etc.

Alphatk is written entirely in Tcl (http://www.tcltk.com), the scripting and
gui language originally developed by John Ousterhout.  This means it is
easily extendable, configurable etc.  Most aspects of its behaviour can be
configured using various 'Preferences' dialogs.  If you can program in Tcl
you can tweak it in any way you like.  However it is designed to be used by
people who cannot program in Tcl.

Alphatk is a little like emacs, in that it is a very powerful text
editor.  However it was designed with a graphical interface in mind
(for many years Alpha was a MacOS only product written in C. This is
effectively a re-implementation of Alpha by emulating its inner
functionality in plain Tcl).

Alphatk is a shareware product.  This is the only way the author can
justify the huge amount of time required to implement Alphatk as a
cross-platform editor using Tcl and the Tk toolkit.  You can purchase
Alphatk at <http://order.kagi.com/?1GU>.

New releases will be made as frequently as is necessary to keep up with
bug reports and feature requests.  Bug fixes and code contributions are
much appreciated.

Alphatk would never have existed had it not been for Pete Keleher, the
creator of 'Alpha', a MacOS only editor, and for the community of Alpha
users who have contributed vast amounts of Tcl code which help make
Alphatk the powerful editor it now is.

Alphatk should run on Windows, Unix or MacOS (but on MacOS you will probably
prefer to use Pete Keleher's editor Alpha which has approximately the same
functionality).

The web site for Alphatk is <http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/Alphatk.html>
The ftp site for Alphatk is <ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/>

(If you were reading this in Alphatk, you could 'alt-double-click' or use 'F6'
on these links to go to them).
