Re: Java

Martin Gregorie wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Martin Gregorie wrote:
murari garg wrote:
and for compiling core java programme you can use Textpad software.

www.textpad.com

The best general purpose text editor I've found for Windows is PFE, which can be downloaded from Winsite, http://www.winsite.com/

PFE doesn't do syntax coloring, but does about anything else you'd want. It is completely configurable for all the usual stuff like auto-indent, line wrapping, etc, which are tied to the file extension. In addition its very fast, can handle huge numbers of files within an MDF master window and has the ability to pipe compiler output back into an editor window.

PFE has not been updated since 1999.

I used it until 2001 or so. I liked it a lot.

But it is not competive today.

I am using JEdit today.

If JEdit matches or surpasses PFE then that's a good recommendation indeed.

I haven't edited anything on a 'doze box for 2-3 years and my copy of Win95 is slowly dieing of bitrot. These days my main editor is microEmacs on Fedora or Microware's OS-9. Theres a decent Windows port of microEmacs too, though its probably not to everybody's taste.

For Java, I almost never use anything but Eclipse.

Otherwise, on Windows, I tend to use SciTE for Ruby. Otherwise, I generally use EMEditor, because it has full programmable macros. But I keep TextPad as a backup, since it can edit hex data.

When my ThinkPad was in the shop, and I had to use my wife's Mac for a while, I tried JEdit, but it seemed unnatural. vi (which I was familiar with from Irix) kept making trouble because of LF/CRLF issues. I really don't know what I'm going to do when (as I plan) I switch to a Mac, myself -- probably start huntine up Eclipse extensions.

In many ways, I miss IBM's epm (for OS/2), especially the downloadable enhanced version that included the source code and compiler. (It was coded in a special language called E.)

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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