Alphatk

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^[2] to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.

Alphatk
Stable release	8.3.3[1]  / 10 December 2004
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Text editor
License	Proprietary software
Website	Archived September 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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",^[3] 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.