Re: How about Best Text Editor?

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 01/06/05

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    On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:49:29 -0800, Tim Wescott
    <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:

    >Al Clark wrote:
    >> Lately, there has been a thread on the worst text editor (I vote for
    >> Edlin). Wouldn't a discussion of the best text editor be more useful?
    >>
    >> I realize that the unix crowd is going to start talking about vi & pico.
    >>
    >> I am held hostage by Bill Gates and I like to kill trees (print my source).
    >>
    >> My favorite is still PFE because it prints nice formatted pages with
    >> headers, indent control etc. I also like the built in command shell that
    >> allows me to call executables and bat files and see the results in the
    >> editor. I use built in editors to write most of my source code (VisualDSP+
    >> & Visual C)
    >>
    >> PFE an old program that existed in Win 3.1 days. I would love a
    >> freeware/shareware replacement.
    >>
    >>
    >Actually the "worst editor" thread started from someone's question about
    >CodeWright (which is apparently not going to be supported). I'd sure
    >like to find a free/cheap replacement for CodeWrite, but I may end up
    >buying CodeWrite for the following features, of which UltraEdit appears
    >to only have the first two:
    >
    >1. Column editing. Can't be beat.
    >
    >2. Regular expressions. Gotta have 'em.
    >
    >3. IDE-like features -- I can compile from it, and after some work with
    >scripts it'll go to source lines with errors automagicaly.
    >
    >4. Point & click for most editing -- I don't want to learn a zillion
    >stupid key combinations, no matter how cool they are (hence I don't like
    >either vi or emacs).
    >
    >5. Project-based find-in-files. Find-and-replace-in-files is a plus,
    >but I'm willing to plow through sed manuals for this if necessary.

    So get Slickedit. All the above and much more, available for a number
    of platforms, and not about to go out of business. 

    -- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net
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