Been using UltraEdit for years and still love it on the PC, using TextMate on my Mac. I'm a bit surprised BBEdit isn't on there - it seemed to be the perennial fav for mac users for years.
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#12Been using UltraEdit for years and still love it on the PC, using TextMate on my Mac. I'm a bit surprised BBEdit isn't on there - it seemed to be the perennial fav for mac users for years.
How does UE compare to TM? I have never used TM before, but apparently E is the one to compare with? I was a diehard UE fan for a couple of years.
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#13What's wrong with using an IDE like eclipse or Visual Studio? That's what I do.
From the article: "From managing our to-do lists and writing code to jotting ideas and keeping a grocery list, nothing beats a solid plain text editor." Do you write all your text in an IDE? And: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72774
I write code in an IDE and other text in notepad. I've never felt the need for any other type of editor. Those fit my needs quite alright.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article: "From managing our to-do lists and writing code to jotting ideas and keeping a grocery list, nothing beats a solid plain text editor." Do you write all your text in an IDE? And: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72774
I write code in an IDE and other text in notepad. I've never felt the need for any other type of editor. Those fit my needs quite alright.
C-x b is my notepad.
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#15EditPlus is a good one for windows development
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#16Now I'm not much of a programmer, so the answer may be obvious to some of you, but why wasn't SciTE on the list? It's lightweight and does everything I need it to. Maybe the others are just so much better than the rest. http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
I am using SciTE again. I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 and started using GEdit. But, I was really annoyed with the text selection in GEdit (programming in Python) and I missed replace within selection in GEdit. So, I switched back to SciTE.
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#17IMO, emacs wins just for it's sheer flexibility. Yeah, it sucks at first, but if you're a professional text wrangler, you owe it to yourself to try to master one of the big two (emacs or vim)... I kept trying out emacs, getting scared off, trying it out again, scaring away again... But I always came back because other text editors annoyed me with their lack of ability to do exactly precisely what I wanted. With emacs…
I don't think it sucks much at first at all... Most people I know that have a hard time with emacs don't want to learn anything fancy and think the arrow keys are fine for navigation. Let them watch you program for a few minutes and they'll be so impressed that they'll happily learn the new commands. OR, they're not cut out for technology anyway...
I had a bit of trouble with it at first, until I realized that I was supposed to be pulling it apart and making it bend to my every editing whim.
The combination of keyboard-focused editing, on-the-fly extensibility, and decently thorough and clear documentation has made emacs my editor of choice for just about everything.
Not to mention that you can get a constant source of ideas to code to keep yourself sharp, if that's your sort of thing.
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#19Vim on my linux box. InType if I have to drop down to Windows.