What is Extended Text Editor?
Extended Text Editor is a program for text editing.

Some features of Extended Text Editor;
  • Editing plain text
  • Unicode and language encodings is supported
  • Spell checking is available for Arabic, German, English, Spanish, Franch, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian languages
  • Regular expressions for searching in text is supported
  • Large number of options is available
  • Integrated game Rally is available from the Help menu (don't play it!)
  • Operations with file like Rename, Copy ... is available
  • Restoring the text when the work of program was terminated unexpectedly

System requirements
  • Version 1.6.0 (tested with version 1.6.0ga5)


Extended Text Editor on an eComStation machine with Open JDK


Installing Extended Text Editor
Download extendedTextEditor-1.3.zip (24Mb). Make a directory/map with the name "ete" if you don't want to use the directory "extendedTextEditor" from the zip file. Open the zip file and copy or the directory presented or open the directory "extendedTextEditor" and copy the contents to the new created directory/map. You can delete the files "ete.bat" and "ete.sh" and delete the directory "source" unless you want to compile yourself. That's about it!

Some hints for use. Don't play the game, its terrible slow and it does something to your mouse behaviour and key responses. You have to close all programs and start them again for normal mouse and key responses. (on my system)

The used cmd file
Extended Text Editor works with Open JDK in OS/2-eCS. I have a ete.cmd (the original name is far too long) file with the following contents; 
@echo off
SET BEGINLIBPATH=[drive: java]\JAVA160ga5\bin
SET path=[drive: java]\JAVA160ga5\bin
SET CLASSPATH=
[drive: extended text editor]
cd [drive: extended text editor]\ETE
java -Duser.home=[drive: extended text editor]\ETE -jar extendedTextEditor.jar 2>ete-bugs.txt
I use 2 separate folders (directories), one for Java and one for Extended Text Editor with the files created by this program. The references used in the cmd file;

  • [drive: java] = drive with Java
  • [drive: extended text editor] = drive with Extended Text Editor

should be replaced with real drive letters. Save the file and name it "ete.cmd" or use the file from "extendedtexteditor-ecs.zip", see below. This file is copied to the "extended text editor" directory/map. Furthermore, different paths?, adjust according to your needs.
Create a new program object. Specify the path and file name: "[drive: extended text editor]\ETE\ete.cmd". In the tabpage Session check the boxes "OS/2 window", "Running as an icon" and "Close Window to end program". In the tabpage General you can enter the name "Extended Text Editor". There is an OS/2 icon in the file "extendedtexteditor-ecs.zip".


Extended Text Editor on an eComStation machine with Open JDK


Parameters / options explained
  • The statement "-Duser.home=[drive: extended text editor]\ETE" will ensure that Extended Text Editor will save all necessary files in own directory instead of saving them in the home directory.
  • The addition "2>ete-bugs.txt" ensures that errors are saved in the file "ete-bugs.txt". The 2 in "2>" is not a typo! The file stays normally empty!

Download
In the file you can find above command file (all drive letters are on set to C:) and an OS/2 Extended Text Editor icon: extendedtexteditor-ecs.zip.

revision January 25, 2020