Prepare texts, develop programs, and edit large database, mainframe, and binary files.
VEDIT is a general purpose editor and a multi-function conversion tool. It is designed for text preparation, program development, and editing large database, mainframe, and binary (hex) files. It can edit in ASCII, EBCDIC, Hexadecimal, and Octal, and supports variable-length and fixed length database records. Patch a corrupted database file, convert a huge mainframe file to a Windows/DOS text file, translate between ASCII, EBCDIC, ANSI, and custom character sets, examine a Postscript file, perform a last-minute search or replace function on a 400 Megabyte file, or search or replace a thousand files. As a text editor, VEDIT is intended for both program development and text preparation. It is ideal for writing programs (C, Pascal, Basic, Assembler), HTML, and lengthy documents such as reports or manuscripts.
Will open just about any size/type file (.exe, .com, database, etc.). VERY strong scripting language.
Cons
Price has gotten ridiculous! I own a previous version that won't run under Windows 7 x64. I paid ~$50 10-15 years ago. I don't see what they've added to justify the current cost. There are other, free, options that can do everything vEdit can do.
Summary
It can be a very helpful code editor. Also nice to edit some files that otherwise would not be editable. However, the price is WAY beyond its level of utility. Sure there may be some users who could justify the value ( (performance + features) / price ), but for the vast majority of users it is out of reach. A real shame because they probably would make a lot more money by reducing it t about the same $50 I paid for the earlier version.