A good text-editing program

November 27th, 2005, 10:06 am

Hi, Im new here "/wave"..


Anyway, to the point. Until now I've only been using notepad. but a teacher told me of some program similar to Notepad but it shows numbers and "colors" the text like in the nopaste sites..

Anyone know of such a program? I bet there's thousands but, any favorites?

November 27th, 2005, 10:49 am

Are you on a mac or a pc? I would assume pc since you mention notepad. For the mac I love BBedit. I use notepad on a pc but I have heard that others use

HTML Kit -- http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Arachnophilia -- http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
And a list of various other freeware apps taht are similar in nature to what you are wanting( at least thats what it looks like)
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster ... shtml#html

I havent used any of these so I really dont have an opinion. Like I said I love BBedit and thats just not an option for windows, at least I dont think it is. And the main thing I liked about it was the find/replace because you could batch find/replace all the files in a folder. But I did see a mention of a Notepad2 which is supposedly a hacked notepad that has some html highlighting capabilities or something.

NOw that I have done this search.... I might check a few of them out. I doubt it (i fear change )

November 27th, 2005, 10:53 am

How is webcoding/design at mac? I've considered getting one for quite some time. I hear lots'a good stuff about it

November 27th, 2005, 11:16 am

Im trying Notepad++ now and its kinda nice. it counts the lines and when you choose what coding-language you use it highlights the text, it knows alot of languages from C and C++ to M$ Dos style. Including those I use which is HTML, XML, PHP, CSS. And so on.

I Think I'll try this for a while

November 27th, 2005, 11:41 am

my vote for editplus. the best I ever used so far. and it's just about 1mb.

[joebert]

November 27th, 2005, 11:49 am

I don't remember how long I've been using it, but Notepad2 is still my favorite.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Syntax highlighting, line bookmarking, visual brace & parenthesis matching, line numbers, starts just as quick as notepad.

Only complaint I have about it is sometimes the horizontal scrollbar is inaccurate requiring me to hit the arrow keys a few times to jump to the end of a long line & make the scrollbar reconfigure itself. (I guess I could turn wrapping on to fix that now that I think about it)

November 27th, 2005, 3:27 pm

Wiper wrote:

How is webcoding/design at mac? I've considered getting one for quite some time. I hear lots'a good stuff about it

I miss my mac. Its great for designing. The coding is the same. Im trying to get a mac mini ( not a power house but quite usefull) its $499 base price is nice too.

November 27th, 2005, 6:48 pm

I used to use DW just for the syntax highlighting...but I hated the overhead and found http://www.weaverslave.de . Best free proggy I've used yet. It supports syntax highlighting, about 20 different languages, and you can customize just about everything.

However, I found something I like better (well, most of it)....Zend Studio. It is for PHP coders, it doesn't really support any other languages (well, javascript, html, xml, and css aside) and it is rather expensive, but I figure I might as well list your options. The 2 biggest things that made me switch are the ability to have it analyze your code before executing it to find potential errors, and being able to have the syntax popup for funtions...saves me a lot of time and php.net a bunch of bandwidth.

=)

November 27th, 2005, 10:48 pm

On windows, I use UltraEdit. On linux I use Eclipse, Zend IDE or Vim.

November 28th, 2005, 3:35 pm

I like notepad++ when I want to do quick editing, if I am making a whole site from scratch I'll use a big IDE program.

November 29th, 2005, 4:41 pm

I recommend using Emacs; it's on many platforms and is hands-down awesome. Especially if you remap your caps lock key to ctrl. A great IDE for many languages. (Well, at least the ones I'm using.) It takes a little bit of a learning curve, or so I felt, but it's worth it. Every time I go to use other IDEs specifically tailored towards one language or another, I end up finding that Emacs is easier. (However, I feel that Vim takes even more of a learning curve, and the fact that some people out there are using a possibly-superior text editor, one that I have not gotten comfortable with, makes me jealous and envious )

November 29th, 2005, 7:45 pm

Windoz
Mac is cool

<edit> oh yea they free </edit>

November 29th, 2005, 11:10 pm

I think he's talking about Wordpad. It's another program like notepad that comes with Windows. It's like notepad, but can do different fonts, colours, code colours, etc.

December 6th, 2005, 7:56 am

generally, its a notepad.. Anyway, why don't you try using photoshop, or flash.. Im sure you'll enjoy workin with those software..



http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com

December 6th, 2005, 5:51 pm

dg_prnts wrote:

generally, its a notepad.. Anyway, why don't you try using photoshop, or flash.. Im sure you'll enjoy workin with those software..

Did you miss the original question? It had nothing to do with a graphics app. Surely you are not suggesting that someone should use the html that photoshop spits out.........*shudder*

Wiper wrote:

PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: A good text-editing program
Hi, Im new here "/wave"..


Anyway, to the point. Until now I've only been using notepad. but a teacher told me of some program similar to Notepad but it shows numbers and "colors" the text like in the nopaste sites..

Anyone know of such a program? I bet there's thousands but, any favorites?