Who knows a good programming text editor?

#1 HawkBoy

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 01:50 AM

I'm pretty sure that at least some of u ppl are programmers of some sort. Does anyone know a good text editor or dev environmenr prog?

The most important thing for me is color coding the text. I want something that works with (at least) html, javascript, java, c++, and css.

It would be nice if the prog was freeware or shareware so i could test it before having to pay for it.

#2 CrazyKillerMan

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 04:03 AM

I'm a big fan of textpad

http://www.textpad.com/

There is also a program with a bit more features called edit plus

http://www.editplus.com/

#3 Linuxboy00

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 04:10 AM

Edit+ kicks butt!! With all the plugins for it and stuff.
I use it to edit my Python, Perl and Kickstart scripts.
Very fast and easy to use.

#4 FrogMaster

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 11:08 AM

Have a look at FirstPage 2000.
You can edit anything with it.
Great and powerful editor. It's free.
http://www.evrsoft.com/

#5 uboofer

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 04:24 PM

I use Primal Script for all my programming, HTML and scripting.

#6 clutch

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 04:53 PM

Primalscript does look pretty cool (over here if you can't find it), and I have used UltraEdit as well. I currently use VisualStudio.NET, but I imagine that might be a bit higher on the scale than what you were looking for.

#7 CyberGenX

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Posted 09 May 2002 - 10:32 PM

I use Edit+ sometimes, it is not a bad lil app. Hey Clutch how do you like VS.NET? I am still using VS6.0 Enterprise and was thinking of upgrading, honestly is it worth it? What are the major difs?

#8 clutch

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Posted 10 May 2002 - 12:37 AM

It's awesome if you are planning to go to .NET coding (which runs *really* fast doing the same things that regular ASP did), and it does launch and run faster than VS6 did. However, if you are still going to code using the older languages then it would be a waste of money getting it. But if you are even *thinking* of going to .NET, it's definately worth trying out. The debugger is far superior to its predecessor in tracking both ASP and ASP.NET executions, it does a really nice job with using the code-behind pages (to separate the formatting from the code), and the Intellisense tech is really nice as well for letting you know that something is probably not going to work (but it will NOT autocorrect it for you, which is an added bonus).