text editor

[Dan]

hey all, does anyone know where I can find a good text editor for code?

 

[Tyler]

hey all, does anyone know where I can find a good text editor for code?

http://www.openedpc.com

 

[horndude77]

There are always these two:

www.vim.org
www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

I prefer vim more because I'm more familiar with it, but both editors
work well. To make this more ruby related this is somewhat interesting:
http://ruvi.rubyforge.org/.

 

[Mark Rogers]

If you are on Mac OSX, try subethaedit.

Mark

http://www.openedpc.com

 

[Gregor Kopp]

hey all, does anyone know where I can find a good text editor for code?

try vim (hard to learn)
cream (= vim, but easier to use)
emacs
mondrian ruby ide
jedit

par example

 

[Rob Pitt]

It's not an editor it's an IDE but I find eclipse with the RDT (ruby
development tools), subclipse and darcs plugins a great development
environment (especially under Fedora Core 4 where it is compiled
natively). Another bonus is eclipse works on pretty much all OS so
you can use it at home, at work, everywhere.

 

[rwoliver2]

Dan,

While everyone has their favorites, I'd like to recommend some of mine.
If you're using Windows, I'd recommend:

* SciTE - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html - included if you grab
the Ruby one click installer)
* jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
* Dreamweaver 8 with RubyWeaver -
http://www.ridingtheclutch.com/entry.cfm?id=58 (commercial of course)

On Linux, I find it hard to beat Quanta. It comes with KDE, under the
kdewebdev package.

I hope this helps!

 

[Erik Veenstra]

hey all, does anyone know where I can find a good text editor

for code?

NOTEPAD.EXE

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

 

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi!

hey all, does anyone know where I can find a good text editor for
code?

There are millions of threads about this topic, but ok, here's a short,
incomplete list (assuming you want to code Ruby):

- Emacs[1] or XEmacs[2] or SXEmacs[3]
- Vim[4]
- Kate[5]
- Eclipse[6] with RDT[7]
- Scite[8]
- Freeride[9]
- ...
- Paper & Pencil[10]

Which one you choose depends on your platform and your personal
preference.

Regards,
Tassilo

Footnotes:
[1] www.gnu.org/software/emacs
[2] www.xemacs.org
[3] www.sxemacs.org
[4] www.vim.org
[5] kate.kde.org
[6] www.eclipse.org
[7] rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net
[8] www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
[9] rubyforge.org/projects/freeride
[10] your desktops drawer

 

[Andreas Wolff]

Hi..

Not to forget: - ActiveState Komodo
[http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/]

vg,
Andreas

 

[Karl von Laudermann]

NOTEPAD.EXE

Notepad isn't a good text editor for *anything*. While it's true that
as of Windows XP they made a giant leap forward is usability by finally
adding a keyboard shortcut for File->Save, Notepad still can't perform
such complicated tasks as, say, handling files with Unix line endings.
Don't even *think* of hoping for such advanced far-future Star Trek era
Artificial Intelligence features such as syntax coloring or regex-based
search.

 

[Gareth Reeves]

hey all, does anyone know where I can find a good text editor for code?

I like TextMate on OSX.

Gareth

 

[Mike]

Notepad isn't a good text editor for *anything*. While it's true that
as of Windows XP they made a giant leap forward is usability by finally
adding a keyboard shortcut for File->Save, Notepad still can't perform
such complicated tasks as, say, handling files with Unix line endings.
Don't even *think* of hoping for such advanced far-future Star Trek era
Artificial Intelligence features such as syntax coloring or regex-based
search.

That's why I've replaced all my links to notepad.exe with notepad2.exe
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad2).

Basic/generic code highlighting, line numbering, regex search & replace.
While Ruby isn't one of the languages it was designed for, just being
able to see where the closing ), } or ] is is certainly helpful in long
or complicated lines.

Other than that... Small and light.

-M

 

[Glenn Smith]

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Crimson Editor, up until now, has been my favourite.
It still is, but development seems to have stopped (if that really is a
problem).
A good (free) alternative seems to be ConTEXT

code?

If you're on Linux, but coming from Windows, consider nedit.

Randy Kramer

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All the best
Glenn
Aylesbury, UK

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[Daniel Baird]

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Ditto with ConTEXT, I like it a lot. Windows only, so only use it if you'r=
e
un-cool, like me I like that whatever loony language I want to try out
next, there's a user-submitted ConTEXT syntax highlighter for it.

;Daniel

Crimson Editor, up until now, has been my favourite.
It still is, but development seems to have stopped (if that really is a
problem).
A good (free) alternative seems to be ConTEXT






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[Servando Garcia]

http://www.openedpc.com

Emacs is a hard beat . Download a few extension modules and your off,
color syntax, compiling, debugging all with out leaving the
environment. I am teaching my Emacs to make breakfast.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

 

[igor.sarzisartori]

I use Window Xp and i have tried JEdit, SciTe, Cream/Vim, UltraEdit,
FreeIde and Eclipse, but sometimes I need a debugger too. Aracno Ide is
very fast and I use it also when I want to edit a simple script.
http://www.ruby-ide.com

 

[jussij]

The Zeus for Windows IDE:

http://www.zeusedit.com/features.html

It has programming specific features like code folding,
syntax highlighting, project/workspace mangement, ftp
editing, class browsing, scripting, integrated CVS etc.

Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows
NOTE: Zeus is shareware