alited stands for a lite editor.
It satisfies most requirements of Tcl Editors, adding its own features. It pretends to be the best of the Tcl Editors.
The main features of alited are:
Edited by alited are Tcl/Tk files. The C/C++ code is another target of alited, still for development of Tcl/Tk projects all the same.
alited facilitates the development and the maintenance of Tcl/Tk code, particularly because of the unit tree being a sort of documentation.
alited is suspected of being very good with large Tcl/Tk projects, i.e. when, in one session, you deal with 30-40-50... Tcl/Tk scripts, to say nothing of others.
It's quick at starting.
It's quick at switching projects.
It's quick at organizing Tcl/Tk code.
It's quick at navigating Tcl/Tk code.
It's quick at searching Tcl/Tk code.
It's quick at writing Tcl/Tk code.
It's quick at testing Tcl/Tk code.
It's quick at saving Tcl/Tk code.
It's quick at maintaining Tcl/Tk code.
Briefly, alited is totally quick, being at that a pure Tcl/Tk application.
For a quick acquaintance of alited, a few of demo videos are available:
For a quick installation, run an installer of alited. After the installation, run its desktop shortcut.
alited project started 1 March 2021.
In fact, alited has been developed by its own v0.2 since 24 April 2021. Inspite of permanent overheads of this way, it turned out to be amazingly productive, more and more in the course of time.
When developing a weekend or small Tcl project, you can nicely do it with Geany or Kate or something else. The situation becomes not so nice with middle and large Tcl projects, however good and smart those editors are (they are indeed).
What is a large Tcl project? The poApps by Paul Obermeier may be considered a canonical large Tcl project. Its main source directories (poApplib, poTcllib, poTklib) contain about 70 Tcl scripts of size 2.5 Mb (total about 150 files, 5 Mb). Also, alited by itself is rather large project containing about 60 main Tcl scripts of size 1.7 Mb (total about 1150 files, 5 Mb), so that no wonder its editing session includes 70-80 files.
It's with the middle and large Tcl projects that alited reveals all its best, while it has 0 Kb of dependencies for developing Tcl/Tk 8.6.10+ and is in no way a half gigabyte monster.
The cause is obvious: those other editors aren't Tclish, while alited is. It is intended specifically for developing Tcl/Tk projects, not for being a universal plug to every hole. Going its own way, of course. Don't forget that it has been coded in Tcl/Tk.
You'll just become more productive with alited at developing Tcl code. Just so simple.
One day I decided to change e_menu's data format because the old .mnu files seemed to be too complex. The e_menu project had started in 2018, when I was an active user of Geany. As a result, its main scripts (e_menu.tcl and e_addon.tcl) were seen as chaotic mixtures of procedures - no structure, no consistency, no order.
I tried and tried to implement the format change, getting in the real trouble with the task that seemed to be so hard...
Finally, in one moment, I decided to rearrange my scripts by alited's means, i.e. to make a proper unit tree and to place the code units in their proper branches.
It was only after this radical rearrangement of e_menu.tcl and e_addon.tcl that I felt the format change can be easily implemented. I did it in two days instead of two weeks as it threatened to be at first.
Along the way, I got two nice unit trees of code. Being two nice pieces of documentation too.
In other words, alited is a sort of code architect and documentation generator that organizes and documents Tcl code "on fly" along with the coding.
The alited's unit tree is so good that it by itself can drastically improve Tcl code and enhance a Tcler's productivity. Not to mention other sweets of alited.
Below is a screenshot of alited, just to glance at it:
... and its localized and themed variant:
... and its themed variant on Windows 10:
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