Peter Vidler
8/30/2003 2:57:00 PM
Hi,
Vattekkat Satheesh Babu wrote:
> - www.jedit.org (very extensible with plugins; macros; can even be
> configured as an IDE)
Having just complained about IDEs with poor UIs that were too slow, you
point me to a Java based one. ;) Seriously though, I tried jEdit a while
back (few months ago) and it didn''t appeal to me. I''m quite fussy with
editors.. they must have syntax highlighting and folding, but they must also
have a native xp gui :)
> - www.vim.org (my favourite, but key combinations can be hard to start
> with)
Tried it a few days ago. Not bad, but kinda ugly and *really* hard to get
used to. I might stick with this one and see how it goes.
> - www.xemacs.org (key combinations can be painful with laptop
> keyboards, and usually Emacs is a bit too much powerful/complicated)
Wasn''t even aware it ran on Windows! I think I might skip this one anyway..
> Finally, if you are not looking for Keyboard magic: www.scintilla.org
> - download SciTE. F5 to compile, F7 to execute, syntax highlighting
> (IMO, the best there is), folding, very easy customization, and all
> in about 300Kb - extremely valuable software to carry around in a
> floppy - you don''t even need to "install" it, just run from a folder
> like good old DOS software (or like the latest .Net assemblies).
Hmm.. I''ve looked at Scintilla before and wasn''t too impressed with it.
Never tried SciTe though.. I''ll go do that now :)
> If you use Notepad at all, you want to rename SciTE as notepad.exe :-)
Ah yes, Notepad.. king of all editors. If only it had syntax highlighting
and folding. Now *there* would be an app ;) .
Pete