ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED

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I chuckle at the repetition over the last 10 years or so. Long ago everyone want an IDE like the Borland one down to the key combinations and menu items, the simple answer was use the Borland IDE. Then came early VC IDEs, then syntax colouring then intellisense then code completion and I have no doubt there are another set of gimmicks in the pipeline.

Fortunately QE is NOT an IDE, it is a configurable editor with multiple scripting engines and programable menus that can be extended until you run out of screen space. It comfortable handles 100 meg files even though it is very rare to write something that large. It is a single instance editor with multiple instance support so you are not locked into an MDI or tabbed "can" and you can open and close as many instances as you like while each is independent of the other.

It has 2 published plugin interfaces for more complex tasks than the script engines will perform and it still comes in at under 30k. It is written that way because its a tool, not a technicolor toy. The original question was asked because that type of setup with external tools is possible and it can be extended that way with as many tools as you need to do your work, thats why it was written that way.  :bg