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Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?
iphigenie:
I have slickedit, an old version, and still use it. If it wasn't too expensive to justify for my own use I would probably have bought the newer version too. If there's ever an upgrade deal in the $99 range I would buy, but at 299 I'll have to wait till I can make a client or company buy it for me :D
It is indeed a tool with the flexibility of an editor but the key power of an IDE
It was the one tool back in 2001 that could do perl and php and python and not only for syntax highlighting but also structural things (like showing you syntax hints for the language features but also your own methods, integration with debugging etc.). it doesnt have all the wizard-ey generation thingies that an IDE would have but I must admit i mistrust these.
When I want an IDE to play with frameworks and code generation expecially in languages I dont master anymore, I have netbeans (except for perl). When I want a simple editor to deal with one file I use ConTEXT (or crimson, or cream), but when I want to work on my own projects, I return to Slickedit
broken85:
Surprised that this hasn't been mentioned, unless I missed something, but I absolutely love EmEditor.
It supports several types of automatic backups, stored bookmarks in files, a nice tabbed interface, etc.
Not sure exactly what you're looking for with filters, however. EmEditor supports all types of data (text, binary, hex, etc) and includes RegEx find/replace support. If you go with the pro version (totally worth it) you also get many great plugins included.
Darwin:
Surprised that this hasn't been mentioned, unless I missed something, but I absolutely love EmEditor.
It supports several types of automatic backups, stored bookmarks in files, a nice tabbed interface, etc.
Not sure exactly what you're looking for with filters, however. EmEditor supports all types of data (text, binary, hex, etc) and includes RegEx find/replace support. If you go with the pro version (totally worth it) you also get many great plugins included.
-broken85 (January 30, 2009, 11:41 AM)
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Given emeditor's popularity on DC - it's absence from this thread until your posting IS odd!
Just my two-bits: I use both EditPad Pro and Ultra-Edit and love them both. EditPad Pro has a better UI than Ultra-Edit though, in my opinion...
Another option might be Boxer, which I've only run as trial once and briefly at that. The trial was brief because I had one of those rare lucid moments wherein I thought "Hang on, I already have licences for more text editors than I need! Why tempt myself with possibly buying another one?"!
http://www.boxersoftware.com/
David, the developer, has been active on the boards in the past and has offered discounts to DC members in the past as well.
EDIT: Learn to READ, Darwin, ya bum!
jack99999:
well, i hate to get dragged in to discussions like this one. editors are worse than religion...
for about 25 years i've been using barry's emacs. first on VAX/VMS, then on various flavours of windows, and occasionally on linux.
it's a very small emacs, but there is a huge flexibility that lets me do, for example:
* i can mark a region the windows way.
* i can mark a region by setting a mark and navigating to whereever and setting another mark.
* i can do bookmarks.
* not sure about what automatic backups are, but emacs will write out checkpoint files after an elapsed time or after a specified number of changes. additionally, it will journal the changes and recover. it's possible to have both checkpointing and journalling!
* i wrote my own function to view just the lines that match a pattern. i can navigate from there, or make changes there and apply them back to the original buffer.
* i can have as many paste buffers as i like.
* i load hundreds of files into the editor
* i can edit files that have millions of characters on a single line
...and so on. i haven't got a tabbed interface... and what happens to a tabbed interface if you load 100 files?
the editor is at http://www.barrys-emacs.org/ and you would probably need a bit of advice to get it all set up, plus some stuff from me.
jack
mrainey:
and what happens to a tabbed interface if you load 100 files?
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I'm really glad I've never had to answer that question. ;D
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