nedit on windows

[Paul Furman]

What's the deal with this multi-platform code editor? does this thing
not work on windows? If I go to the US download mirror, there's only
source code, if I go to other mirrors there are different versions for
different os's but no mention of windows.

http://www.nedit.org

Does it even have a gui? I'm thinking I won't like it if it's this
confusing just to download.

 

[Cameron]

What's the deal with this multi-platform code editor? does this thing
not work on windows? If I go to the US download mirror, there's only
source code, if I go to other mirrors there are different versions for
different os's but no mention of windows.

http://www.nedit.org

Does it even have a gui? I'm thinking I won't like it if it's this
confusing just to download.

It tells you exactly what you must do for it to work with windows on the
website.

~Cameron

 

[Paul Furman]

It tells you exactly what you must do for it to work with windows on the
website.

~Cameron

OK I found that. http://www.nedit.org/platforms.shtml Looks like it's
got to install a unix emulator cygwin thing. Is this going to be able to
use the windows clipboard & other normal things?

Sorry if a bit grumpy today. pspad seems to be doing the trick for me.
PHPCoder is basically not usable yet from what I can see, the file
browser is broken and there is no indentation feature. 1stPage has some
issues with php also.

 

[Cameron]

OK I found that. http://www.nedit.org/platforms.shtml Looks like it's
got to install a unix emulator cygwin thing. Is this going to be able to
use the windows clipboard & other normal things?

Sorry if a bit grumpy today. pspad seems to be doing the trick for me.
PHPCoder is basically not usable yet from what I can see, the file
browser is broken and there is no indentation feature. 1stPage has some
issues with php also.

I would presume it can, I don't use cygwin, I use FreeBSD Unix.

~Cameron

 

[Jeffrey Silverman]

What's the deal with this multi-platform code editor? does this thing
not work on windows? If I go to the US download mirror, there's only
source code, if I go to other mirrors there are different versions for
different os's but no mention of windows.

http://www.nedit.org

Does it even have a gui? I'm thinking I won't like it if it's this
confusing just to download.

Question is, why do you want to use a (to quote the nedit site) "a
multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System"?? MS Windows is not X
Windows! (But I guess you know that.)

There are a gajillion (thats 1 with 72 zeroes after) text editors designed
for coding and that run *easily* on MS Windows. Just seems silly to not
use something else.

 

[m]

What's the deal with this multi-platform code editor? does this thing
not work on windows? If I go to the US download mirror, there's only
source code, if I go to other mirrors there are different versions for
different os's but no mention of windows.

http://www.nedit.org

Does it even have a gui? I'm thinking I won't like it if it's this
confusing just to download.

This is a capable programmer's editor, but hardly my favorite, even under
'nix. It seems to have the kind of raw edges that
I associate with early X-Windows applications, but it's rock solid.
Editors like nedit and emacs can appear distinctly odd to someone
who's only been in the Windows world. Look into TextPad or
Note Tab.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

What's the deal with this multi-platform code editor? does this thing
not work on windows?

Yes it does. I have run it on Windows before. But you'll need an X server
installed first.

Does it even have a gui?

Yes, it's a GUI text editor.
Screen shot: http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/scratch/nedit