quick question: good text editor for coding?

[endervalentine]

title says it all, anything that is light weight, auto coloring and auto indenting?

 

[lxskllr]

Notepad++

 

[krylon]

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[duragezic]

Notepad++ is my overall favorite for the criteria you specified.

Also it's free.

 

[seemingly random]

vi: vile or vim

 

[Net]

if you decide to use vim put this in your .vimrc


set cindent
set smartindent
set autoindent
set expandtab
set softtabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
syntax on

 

[degibson]

gvim
What code looks like under my .vimrc file.

 

[zebano]

I've used and like any of the following:
notepad++, VIM, SC1

 

[ForumMaster]

editplus isn't bad. it has templates for html,c,c++,perl,php,java,jsp,javascript,vbscript,css,xml and c#. it also auto completes basic things like for loops. in the templates, in recognizes saved words, has auto completion for perl, c++. go here for more many more including almost any language from ASP to XML to Assembly to LISP...

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Notepad++

Yes

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: krylon
gayworld tv

You might be thinking about a different kind of editor.

 

[esun]

Since others have recommended vi, I'll go ahead and recommend emacs (though I'm sure those vi users will complain about it not being "light weight" compared to vi).

 

[Woosta]

vim
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[degibson]

http://xkcd.com/378/

 

[Kirby]

We use UltraEdit at work. I like it.

 

[bobsmith1492]

I use Visual Studio express.

 

[eLiu]

emacs

hands down better than all other options, light-weight or heavy-weight.

 

[iCyborg]

Ed, because it's the standard editor
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

On a more serious note, UltraEdit is great, but is not free, so I use Notepad++ as a good alternative. Though, I tend to use Visual Studio under Windows for coding (Intellisense FTW), and under Linux usually some VI variety. Tried emacs, but could never get on board with it, probably just habit...

 

[Ken g6]

IMHO, if you're willing to take a few person-days to learn the two modes, the commands that various keys produce, and regular expressions if you don't know them already, GVim is a great text editor!

If you're not willing to do all or most of that and just use the "easy" mode, GVim is just an OK text editor, maybe even worse than average. I haven't tried it, but Notepad++ might be a better alternative in this case.

Personally, I don't like UltraEdit because (1) you have to pay for it, (2) its regular expressions are non-standard, and (3) it has a learning curve that I think is similar to GVim (see also #2) but I don't know of anything UltraEdit can do that GVim + sed (for multiple files) can't do. Though I should add I haven't used UltraEdit much because of #1.

 

[Staples]

Ultra Edit, been using it for many many many years. I paid for lifetime upgrades so I am set for the future.