I'm starting to have to write programs for small microcontrollers and for UNIX environments, so I'm in the market for a good text editor. I want something like notepad, with a fixed-width font, but with goodies. I want to use it for programming, primarily in C/C++, but possibly in other languages. So, syntax highlighting or indenting would be a definite plus. I've heard good things about some program called TextEdit or UltraEdit, but I hate to shell out the cash without a second opinion.
Any suggestions?
I'm pretty fond of UltraEdit myself. Have you tried out the demo?
There was this one I had, called Arachnid, I think. It was pretty good.
Metapad is another good text editor.
So far it looks like a fight between TextPad and UltraEdit. They both boast a similar set of features, I'm going to have to use them for a while before I decide which one I like the best. TextPad certainly has a better price point. I used to use EditPad Lite, and I love that program, but unfortunately I really like syntax highlighting. It would also seem that I can get both TextPad and UltraEdit to send the commands to compile the code I'm writing. Any other suggestions?
Fly from me, devil! Back! Back!
Actually, from my limited experience with Emacs, I kind of liked it. It's just the pages and pages of documentation intimidated me. You got any Emacs n00b guides for the *NIX impaired, vegeta?
At one point, I had some emacs cheat sheets with the basic commands (open, save, close files, move text around, etc.), but I left them all in America. 😞
That said, emacs includes just about anything you could want. Except a kitchen sink. But they're working on that.
Seriously, if you're going to be using a text editor on Unix environments, use emacs. The extra effort you might need to figure out how to do something will be outweighed by the fact that there is always a way to do that something. (And feel free to post questions, here or in the Programming forum.)
"I left them in America." That just sounds funny. Anywho do any of these have no footprint. I downloaded textpad but it was over 1 meg. Of course it could be smaller but I want something as diminutive as notepad. With unicode support and block moving, as opposed to line moving.
Wasn't there a free slash awesome text editor (Notepad Lite) that came with the Age of Kings scenario construction kit guide book? I love that thing. It's got everything.
Originally posted by AtmaWeapon
Fly from me, devil! Back! Back!Actually, from my limited experience with Emacs, I kind of liked it. It's just the pages and pages of documentation intimidated me. You got any Emacs n00b guides for the *NIX impaired, vegeta?
Sure do:
http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/taanastasio/COSC350/Fall02/Goodies/gnuemacs.html
I should just give you the link to my Cosc 350 teacher's page, he has alot of good links there, some of which I posted in another thread for you:
http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/taanastasio/COSC350/Fall02/COSC350.html
Yes, I would suggest you get to know Emacs, because it is extremely powerful, and you can use the same editor on just about any OS you come across. For a small text editor, I would recommend MetaPad, as it has a very small footprint, and makes for a nice replacement to notepad. Literally. Rename it and plop it in your win, sys32, and dllcache directories really quick. You'll then have a nice "upgrade" to notepad, and everything (including windows software) will already use it by default. I suppose the same can be said for other text pad upgrades, but metapad is so light and quick you'd think M$ actually got off their asses and upgrade a part of their OS that has hardly changed since Win95. 😱
EditPlus!!! But I'm too lazy to post a link... hehe.