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  Zap is, without question, the best text/memory editior around for Acorn computers. This magazine would not (along with very many other programs) have been finished without Zap. The following text is taken from Zap's main Help file, and gives a good idea of its features:
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<li> Display may be in many different editing modes. eg. Text, byte, disassembly, coloured C, assembler, Basic.
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<li> All key short cuts and menus are user redefinable.
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<li> Full (unix style) wildcard search with your own definable macros and search 'throwback' buffers.
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<li> Proper unix tabs and true scrollbar operation.
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<li> Full undo on all operations.
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<li> Copy/End key causes standard cursor editing.
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<li> Fast redraw in bitmap or anti-aliased fonts. Lots of different bitmap fonts supplied.
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<li> Any number of markers on each file, and a facility for following branches in disassembly mode.
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<li> Full ARMBE style BASIC Editor.
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<li> Search as you type with minibuffer.
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<li> Learns keys sequences.
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<li> Emacs style Yank (Cut & Paste) and !Edit style move and copy implemented.
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<li> C throwback/info supported.
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<li> Reads disc sectors/tracks and memory of other tasks.
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<li> Keyboard selection of regions.
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<li> Taskwindow supports control characters / line-editor.
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<li> Emacs compatible keymap.
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<li> Auto indent.
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<li> Can edit assembler instructions when in code mode.
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<li> Compatible with  Risc Os 2 & 3 & Risc PC.
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<li> Automatic detection of DOS text files and Spool files.
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<li> Uses dynamic areas on the Risc PC.
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  Any problems? Well, its system for setting options is a bit clunky, and I can't get it to work properly, so I have to put up with white text on a black background when editing plain text files, because I need it for HTML etc. If you want to use it with anything other than the default options set, you should realise that it is, in this respect, one of the most user-hostile programs I have encountered that weren't written for the <a href="../../Editorials/EDIndex">PC</a>.Other than that, <b><u><i>get this now</i></i></b>. It is without question the best around, and it's Freeware!
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Authors: Dominic Symes and many others<br>
Status: Freeware<br>
Availability: If your PD library hasn't got it, stop using it. It must be useless! The Datafile's <a href="../Commercial/PDCD5">PD-CD 5 also has it</a>.<br>
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