Text Editors

M4A1 · 08-03-2006, 05:38 PM

Which ones are your favorites? Do they support C?

fjf314 · 08-03-2006, 10:16 PM

I'm personally a fan of TextPad. I use it for all of my programming work. You can check it out for free from the website.

office politics · 08-03-2006, 11:01 PM

http://www.pspad.com/

PSPad editor
The universal freeware editor is for you if you need to:

work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker
create web pages - as web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools to save your time
use a good IDE for your compiler - editor PSPad catch and parse compiler output, integrate external help files, compare versions, and much more...

thejeremy · 08-08-2006, 05:05 PM

I recently discovered PHP Designer 2006 Beta and I really like it. Not designed so much for C++. It's mainly for PHP, HTML, XML, MySQL, and other scripting languages. There is a bar at the top allowing you to select which language you want to be highlighted and it will make all portions of that language within the current file highlighted. Very useful if your files consist of lots of intertwining HTML, PHP, and MySQL queries, as you can make parts of your files stand out when you are developing them. I haven't messed with any of the features yet but there are alot of them.

The link to download this is here.

I've also been an avid user of Textpad for years.

fjf314 · 08-08-2006, 10:24 PM

I've stuck with TextPad mainly because it has built-in Java support. While I still have to compile from the command line for various reasons, I still like to be able to use the built-in TextPad macros to be able to compile and run my programs real quick, especially whenever I'm testing and debugging my code. If something with similar functionality exists for C, I would recommend trying to find out what it is and using it.

jaeusm · 08-08-2006, 11:23 PM

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If something with similar functionality exists for C, I would recommend trying to find out what it is and using it.

TextPad does this.

jcortes · 08-09-2006, 03:07 AM

textpad gets my vote has a plugin to format and compile any language

fjf314 · 08-09-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally posted by jaeusm
TextPad does this.

Oh, that's cool. I only generally work with Java, and I guess I just never thought that TextPad would support other programming languages in the same way. Thanks for the heads up.

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