About WinEdt
WinEdt has been around for a long time (30 years and counting). It was originally developed in 1993 as a simple text editor for Windows 3.1. I embarked on the project with a student edition of Borland's TPW 1.5 (Delphi's predecessor) while working on my Ph.D. thesis (it is so easy to get distracted with something you are not supposed to be doing while "officially" working on a thesis). I was quite happy with the result of a few months of part-time programming and indeed WinEdt was used to typeset my thesis without any major incident. In the process I made a few enhancements and fixed a few bugs that now and then emerged.
When in 1995 I hit hard times, I decided to upload WinEdt to CTAN as shareware, hoping that a few bucks from registrations would help with the rent. The money certainly didn't start rolling in: WinEdt had exactly five registered used by the end of 1995, counting me, my brother and a free copy requested by some university research center in US. The rest has been the most peculiar experience: a long and winding road...
Unlike many Windows or platform-independent editors, WinEdt has been written from scratch (providing custom responses to the mouse and keyboard input events and implementing a text renderer which analyzes the contents and determines its highlighting attributes). While these features make it possible to do almost anything (while keeping the source files 100% pure) it also implies that WinEdt has to provide support for any language-specific behavior which applications based on standard controls transparently inherit (for example, Bidirectional text: supported since WinEdt 10). Assuming there is enough interest in any such new feature I will usually implement it, following reports and suggestions from interested users. However, such an implementation is not always straightforward and it may take time. Please be patient!
A lot has changed since the humble beginnings! WinEdt is now a well-established editor with its own PDF viewer. The biggest challenge WinEdt faces at this point is to make its rich set of features more readily available to new users. Simplified interfaces and tutorials (included narrated video presentations) will be considered in the future.
Recent WinEdt Awards
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WinEdt Team
Always on the alert: A much younger WinEdt Team at their HQ back in 1996
Every picture tells a story: click here, if you will....
TUG Interview with the WinEdt Team (summer of 2006)
In memoriam Echo (2005-2016)
Echo, our faithful companion and a long-time CSO (Chief Security Officer) at WinEdt HQ, is no more.
Here she is in better days...
WinEdt HQ: Canadian Summer and Winter...
If mother nature throws eight feet of snow at you get yourself a snowblower and stop whining!
Fun on SV ADRIANA...
A beautiful afternoon in St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia in the summer of 2016.
After a long and cold Canadian winter it is nice to spend some time on the water away from computers and WinEdt. The "programming season" stops in June and resumes in late September.
Below is a link to a couple of short video clips illustrating the fun and challenges of cruising in Nova Scotia's coastal waters on SV ADRIANA (for amusement of those that are into sailing):
Adventures on SV Adriana (Summer 2016)