Re: A good text editor for JAVA?

"mitcheroo" <mmitcheroo@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:1133283223.608820.19630
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> What is a good text-editor for the begining programmer in Java?
>

If you want just an editor, and not an IDE, try TextPad. IMO when you're
just starting to learn, you shouldn't have automatic code-completion and
other fancy stuff. Just code highlighting and automatic indentation is all
you need - it will force you to actually think about what you are writing,
instead of relying on the IDE to write code for you.

Basically anything that has code highlighting and adjustable indentation
will do - I just happen to like TextPad.

http://www.textpad.com/

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