Ed Tcl Code Editor

The Ed Tcl Editor is a text editor that lets you edit, paste, cut, copy, and search through Tcl/Tk code. You can test code simply by clicking on the Test button. It runs under all versions of Tcl/Tk from 7.5/4.1 to 8.0. To run the Editor, open a new Tcl/Tk console window and source the ed.tcl file.

When you test Tcl code using the Editor, a slave Tcl interpreter runs and opens another window for the code in the editor window. Error messages appear in the Tcl/Tk console. Clicking on the test button will not save your code to disk; Ed will simply execute Tcl commands in the window. Any changes that you have made will be tested, but not saved until you explicitly ask the application to save the file. To save changes to your code, you must select Save from the File menu or press the Save button.

The Get URL utility of the Ed Tcl Editor lets you access Tcl code (or any other plain text file) from anyplace on the Internet. You simply enter a URL in the entry field of the Get URL dialog box. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, the retrieval of the data may take a few moments. The data appears in the editor window. You can test the data by simply clicking on the Test button, and save it to disk.