Time for my occasional salute to good old Kedit. I’ve been using it since 1984, and I’ve tried all the alleged substitutes and replacements. Nothing comes close.
My life and work is centered around Kedit, specifically the ALL keyword, which has no equivalent in any other program. I use standard phrases in my daily life journal to make searches with ALL easier. ALL lets me see when and how often this event occurred in the past. Am I improving now or not?
In work-related files for programming or graphics, ALL makes it easy to find and modify or delete all lines containing (or not containing) a word or number or combination.
The Kedit website says the company may finally stop supporting it at the end of this year. I’ve never needed support because Kedit never fails or bugs out, so the loss of support won’t affect me. Still, now seems like a good time to express thanks for 40 years of faithful service.
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I wish there was a way to use the ALL keyword on real life.
ALL /bad/
would select
bad balance today
bad sleep today
bad mood today
Then Ctrl-H and block-change bad to excellent.
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Update 12/22: Just for fun I checked back with the Mansfield Software website that maintains Kedit. They’ve decided to keep going for one more year, because the existing user base still depends on the product, as I do.
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[Updated December 2024 to extend sales/support dates by a year]
KEDIT for Windows is at this point a “legacy product”, kept available and supported on a very limited basis, primarily for the benefit of existing users. We discourage purchases of KEDIT by new users not already familiar with the program. We currently plan to continue selling KEDIT for Windows through our web site until at least the end of 2025.
Support is provided by e-mail to support@kedit.com, and is only available on a limited, part-time basis. We plan to continue support for KEDIT for Windows until at least June 2026. Our support is focused on KEDIT for Windows running on 64-bit versions of Windows 10 or Windows 11. Any new maintenance releases of KEDIT for Windows are expected to require a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or Windows 11.
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Hooray for ‘legacy’. It’s wonderful to see ONE HUGE EXCEPTION to the modern forced obsolescence trend with daily complete updates and reboots requiring users to reload and relearn everything instead of GETTING SHIT DONE.
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