Suggest me a text editor :)

I second that, I love ultraedit...
Editplus is also good

 

I have to try a few of these mentioned here. I have been using TextPad for many years now. I like it since it doesn't choke un huge text files.

 

Crimson Editor comes with fries and a Coke. It doesn't choke on huge files and can have several open at once (tabbed). If you're not careful, you may choke on the fries or crushed ice though...

 

Try VIM, I hope it will help.

 

VIM? Here in Canada, that's a bathroom cleanser

 

I'd have to recommend EditPlus. It's been around for a long time, is a very robust client and is extremely extensible for all your coding needs.

I was forced to use TextPad and Visual Studio for 3 years at uni, managed to get bollocked for installing EditPlus on to all the machines in the labs - worth the sacrifice!

It is fully tabbed, so you can have as many files open at a time as you want. Supports regular expressions and replacements across multiple files.

If you're using it to code Java, it will even auto-insert common code snippets for you.

For web stuff it defaults to HTML 4.01 Transitional, but one of many user files is a conversion to XHTML Strict, which I would also recommend getting.

There is plenty of user support, it's cheap and you're supporting an independent software developer.

I'm going to take a risk and say it's never crashed on me either!

What more could you want!?

 

How do you "get bollocked"?

(Did you mean to search for castrated?)

 

Apologies, "bollocked" = "told off" in the UK... (otherwise known as "recieve a bollocking" - don't ask me where it came from!

 

I use and would recommend kate. It is an excellent text editor that comes with KDE on GNU/Linux (I heard KDE is being ported to windows as well, but GNU/linux is recommended).

Kate has code highlighting for most programming and scripting languages, spellchecker, side tabs for documents, projects and filesystem browser, built in terminal tab (interfacing to the linux shell) and "find file" tab. And be sure that's not all, only what I'm aware of.

And besides all that kate is Free Software (open source), light and fast. For me it's perfect for anything from software development to web design and programming.

For more info about Kate go to http://kate.kde.org/ .

If you're still not running GNU/Linux than what are you waiting for? You can find info on many sites, but for a start you might want to check out www.distrowatch.org , find one that seems suitable for you and give it a spin. Many did and many loved it.. and still do.

Cheers
Daniel

 

I agree Crimson Editor is the best. Uses very few resources and I keep 12-13 windows open at a time

Ian

 

Something that will run all those Windows programs I like?

 

Have anyone here tried HTML Kit? It's at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/.
I've tried many different editors, but I always come back to this one.
At first, to many it seems a little overwhelming it has so many options, but once you get the hang of it, it can really be usefull.
Another plus is it's plug-ins. There are virtually hundreds of plugins available for everything from CSS to php.

 

Never used it but heard good things about it from people who have.

 

I use editplus

 

I typically use edit plus save plus ftp

 

Notepad++ all the way

 

It will run even better programs. But yeah actually, alot of windows programs are nicely supported through WINE (windows emulator), so you can have best of both worlds or simply ease your transition to GNU/Linux Free Software with it.

Either way, I'm happy as I can be with GNU/Linux and kate.

 

As MikMik said on another forum, "Any OS that names a folder 'Program Files' instead of 'bin' or 'sbin/lib' is okay with me!"

 

i use notepad wordpad and homesite =)

 

Heh well, it may be just a matter of taste, but I like simple short names. It's not like you have to be einstein to get to know for what do all these names mean. Infact, you don't even have to know that. Some of the newer GNU/Linux distros let you install and configure stuff automatically without ever having to go into those folders..

Some GNU/Linux distros do have software packaging and installation "windows like" so you have more descriptive names of folders as well..

Ah well, that's offtopic. Another editor I'd suggest is bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html). I don't use it, but have heard good things about it, aside from it being bloated. And oh yeah, it seems to be GNU/Linux only.

Cheers
Daniel