I'm on a quest to find the perfect programing editor and am looking for some help. I've tried a number, Crimson editor, gvim, jedit, notepad++.....right now I'm using notepad++ which seems to be VERY close (collapsible code is COOL!) but theres still some things that are rough about it and so I'm off again....
Anyway, here are some thoughts and stuff I'm looking for:
Runs in Windows (if that wasn't obvious)
syntax highlighting
built in "find-in-directory": often I am searching for a specific string of text or something that occurs in a number of files in a directory. I want to be able to search for a specific string in all files in a directory and then edit those that come up.
context menu support: in windows explorer I want to be able to right click on a file and
able to run from the command line (this could probably be set up with bat files or something, but support for that right after install would be better)
collapsible code chunks would be cool, but its probably not necessary
tabbed interface for multiple documents - and loading multiple documents within the same program instead of multiple windows
I used jedit for quite awhile before notepad++, liked a lot of it, but some of it was clumsy and the new version seemed to have broken a lot of the functionality I had before. maybe I could look into an older version or something. notepad++ is sharp, and even has limited syntax completion which is awesome, but its find and replace and search functions are very basic and its options are somewhat limited. I guess I'm just wondering if maybe I'm missing something else out there? Thanks!
Anyway, here are some thoughts and stuff I'm looking for:
Runs in Windows (if that wasn't obvious)
syntax highlighting
built in "find-in-directory": often I am searching for a specific string of text or something that occurs in a number of files in a directory. I want to be able to search for a specific string in all files in a directory and then edit those that come up.
context menu support: in windows explorer I want to be able to right click on a file and
able to run from the command line (this could probably be set up with bat files or something, but support for that right after install would be better)
collapsible code chunks would be cool, but its probably not necessary
tabbed interface for multiple documents - and loading multiple documents within the same program instead of multiple windows
I used jedit for quite awhile before notepad++, liked a lot of it, but some of it was clumsy and the new version seemed to have broken a lot of the functionality I had before. maybe I could look into an older version or something. notepad++ is sharp, and even has limited syntax completion which is awesome, but its find and replace and search functions are very basic and its options are somewhat limited. I guess I'm just wondering if maybe I'm missing something else out there? Thanks!
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