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From: Why Tea on 7 Feb 2010 17:38
On Feb 7, 2:09 pm, Richard Steinfeld
<rgsteinBUTREMOVET...(a)sonicANDTHISTOO.net> wrote:
> Susan Bugher wrote:
> > Craig wrote:
>
> > "never enough editors!"
>
> > See:
> >http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
> > "So far, we've collected 1,195 text editors listed in the EditorIndex."
> >http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EditorIndex
> > "OtherTextEditorWikis -- this ain't the only one..."
>
> Egads!
> Now, in the midst of this vast herd of what are really
> programmers' editors, how does one manage to find programs that
> are truly suited for text work: handle well, print with decent
> control, etc.?

80% of the users probably only ever need Notepad. For
the other 20% who use a text editor for serious work, they
probably know what they are looking for. But it always
needs time to evaluate the editor initially.

I tend to classify text editors based on the following
capability:
1) Macro
- real macro scripting, not keyboard recording
2) Search
- regexp
- list search of all occurrences
- search all files loaded
- search disk files
3) Tabbed windows
- easy access to loaded files
4) Syntax highlights
- configurable?
- how many formats supported
5) Code folding
- good for program code viewing
6) Print
- printout as syntax highlights?
7) String expansion
- time saver
8) Project supported?
9) Language specific features?

It may not always be possible to find one single
editor good in everything. But you may be able
to find 2 or 3 that provide the best of everything.

In general, the Scintilla based editors all seem
to be quite good:
- sciTE
- Notepad++
- Notepad2

Personally, I use the following Windows text editors:
- (Tse Pro - shareware)
- Pspad
- sciTE (portable single EXE)
- R J TextEd

Unix text editors:
- Nedit
- Vim/Vi

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