Any good free editors for Kixtart?

[jfunk]

I'm going to try using Kixtart to make some basic logon scripts for a Win2K3 box and was wondering if anybody has any recommendations for a free editor to use instead of notepad.

I don't need anything fancy, just color would be fine.

Thanks.

j

 

[Sunner]

Gvim has highlighting for Kix.
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It might feel a tad...awkward, if you've never used vi/vim before, but hey, you gotta learn to use a proper editor some day, right? 😉

 

[jfunk]

Thanks, I just saw that one after I posted this. It's pretty cool but I found a simple one called kixtarter that's a little more user friendly to windiots. 🙂


j

 

[gsellis]

Good luck. I also recommend that you go to Clarence Washington's Scripting site. Lots of login scripts using VB or Java scripts. I say this because Kixstart is not always the best solution and it gives you an alternative.

Footnote: We used kixstart because we also supported Win 3.11 clients at the time that did not support a script lang.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: gsellis
Good luck. I also recommend that you go to Clarence Washington's Scripting site. Lots of login scripts using VB or Java scripts. I say this because Kixstart is not always the best solution and it gives you an alternative.

Footnote: We used kixstart because we also supported Win 3.11 clients at the time that did not support a script lang.

Any particular reason not to use Kix?
And yeah, that's a serious question, I'm pretty much a complete noob at Windows scripting, what little I've done has been mostly in Kix since it's so extremely simple to get a decent grip on, and yet useful enough to write some light stuff in, ergo, perfect for someone like me who doesn't really like Windows scripting all that much and hence doesn't feel compelled to learn VBS or some such 🙂

Of course, there's always batch scripting(whatever the language is called), but that's utter insanity...

 

[gsellis]

It does not does some of the stuff you can do with WMI in a vbscript (look for Scriptomatic for a quick coder for it). You can query devices in the login script if you need to.

Also, not often, but on occasion, I see kixstart die during login. I monitor the Corporate Error Reporting server. It is not bad, but it does seem to crash 2-5 times a day in a population of about 12-15k. That is almost rare, but I do wonder if it is effecting something as it is the login script.

I am also not so sure that MS supports its use anymore.