Text Editor(s) — which one do you use?

[Rip the Jacker]

What text editor do you use?

As for me, I use ConTEXT for PHP/JS/XHTML/CSS, etc. I like the syntax highlighting, simple interface.. but whenever I alt tab to it.. it feels a little "sluggish" (using 8 MB of ram though).

I'm looking to tryout some new editors. They must have a very minimalistic interface, have syntax highlighting (customizable), line numbers, current line highlighter, and not use too much memory.

 

[futuristicmonkey]

vi is fun, though I wish I could remember all the damn commands (at least the useful ones)

 

[mundane]

vi when I'm in a shell, Notepad++ in windows.

 

[Josh7289]

Notepad. That is all. ^^

EDIT: But I really only do anything directly in my SDK's text editor.

 

[itachi]

i use several editors depending on what i'm editing.. emacs (code), notepad++ (text), and xvi (hex).

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Isn't textpad te defacto-standard, especially if you want syntax highlighting?

It supoprts pretty much everything and you can DL add-ons for just about any format you can imagine.

 

[screw3d]

I played with SciTE after looking at this thread.. and I think this is going to be my favourite text editor. I was using Notepad2 as my replacement Notepad.exe 🙂

 

[mugs]

EditPlus

 

[itachi]

Originally posted by: screw3d
I played with SciTE after looking at this thread.. and I think this is going to be my favourite text editor. I was using Notepad2 as my replacement Notepad.exe 🙂

..but nobody mentioned scite.

anyways, if u like scite u should also try out notepad++.. it uses the same editor component (scintilla). only thing i don't like about either of them is the regex support, which is too weak for my likings.

 

[clamum]

UltraEdit-32 has the features you're looking for. It's what I use, no complaints here. 🙂

Link

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Isn't textpad te defacto-standard, especially if you want syntax highlighting?

It supoprts pretty much everything and you can DL add-ons for just about any format you can imagine.

Does it have built-in FTP? That's a dealbreaker for me. I just downloaded it and I don't see it. It's not looking as good as EditPlus to me.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: itachi

Originally posted by: screw3d
I played with SciTE after looking at this thread.. and I think this is going to be my favourite text editor. I was using Notepad2 as my replacement Notepad.exe 🙂

..but nobody mentioned scite.

anyways, if u like scite u should also try out notepad++.. it uses the same editor component (scintilla). only thing i don't like about either of them is the regex support, which is too weak for my likings.

OP was looking for recommendations so I gave a suggestion. 😕

edit: But yes, Notepad++ is sweet too.. it's basically SciTE with a GUI configuration

 

[secretanchitman]

textedit - i dont know any other good ones...

 

[schneiderguy]

notepad++

 

[duragezic]

JEdit

Open-source, cross-platform, good features, and lots more (like FTP) can be added with plugins . It should do everything you need. Uses up to 15mb of memory that I've seen, but that's kinda expected being that it's written in Java (but certainly not slow or anything).

 

[Armitage]

nedit

 

[stevf]

been playing with crimson editor lately - seems good and is free with no nagging.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

do any of these editors both act as notepad replacements AND have the ability to default saved files as .txt ?? Ive been looking for something that is more powerful than notepad, but will also save files as text as default as thats what I use the most.notepad++ is perfect except for the lack of that saving feature.

 

[clickynext]

Crimson. I havn't really tried much else.

 

[troytime]

i use to use ultraedit a lot, great program

now i do all my work in zend studio, but code all day and zend sucks for quick open/edit/save/close tasks

i still use notepad to do quick text edits.

 

[pkme2]

vi in Linux, notepad in XP.

 

[Xyclone]

Notepad, but I'll try Notepad++ now that you guys mention it.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Isn't textpad te defacto-standard, especially if you want syntax highlighting?

It supoprts pretty much everything and you can DL add-ons for just about any format you can imagine.

Does it have built-in FTP? That's a dealbreaker for me. I just downloaded it and I don't see it. It's not looking as good as EditPlus to me.

No, it doesn't have FTP. Why is that important?

If peopel are doing software development work or web page stuff, why not just get Eclipse?

I'm not sure why ftp is important? Any development should be done with a CVS or similar repository in the background. Eclipse ties into those. Eclipse is also free.

 

[jjones]

I use EditPad Pro for quickie script editing and general default text editor. It has a lot of very handy features.

 

[ockky]

textpad ftw!!! and eclipse for doing anything serious