I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him).
In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & Ruby syntax highlighter included.
Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC in years :)
--- Justin French, Indent.com.au justin.french@indent.com.au Web Application Development & Graphic Design
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:23:20 +1100, Justin French justin.french@indent.com.au wrote:
I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him).
In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & Ruby syntax highlighter included.
Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC in years :)
JEdit is the best thing I've found so far on Windows. Eclipse might work, too, but I'm not sure about PHP syntax highlighting, and it's just a pretty hefty environment.
HTH,
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:23:20 +1100, Justin French justin.french@indent.com.au wrote:
I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him).
In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & Ruby syntax highlighter included.
Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC in years :)
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On Windows I've always relied on UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/). It has syntax highlighting that can be user defined. I have no idea if anyone has made a highlight file for Ruby or Rails, but I know there's one for PHP.
It's not free, but certaily worth the price.
Patrick
Patrick Burleson wrote:
On Windows I've always relied on UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/). It has syntax highlighting that can be user defined. I have no idea if anyone has made a highlight file for Ruby or Rails, but I know there's one for PHP.
It's not free, but certaily worth the price.
I'd agree - UE was effectively the only app really holding me back from a real "switch" until TM. It does have a file list similar to the "drawer", as well as tabs. It also does allow you to have saved "projects". It is definitley one of the most robust text editors out there that I've seen.
Looks like there is a syntax (Wordfile) for Ruby, but it does look kind of old (2001):
http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=40#w...
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On 28. jan 2005, at 17:21, Justin Henry wrote:
I'd agree - UE was effectively the only app really holding me back from a real "switch" until TM. It does have a file list similar to the "drawer", as well as tabs. It also does allow you to have saved "projects". It is definitley one of the most robust text editors out there that I've seen.
I agree... although it's ridicuously bloated IMO. But it's nice, and even has a few advantages over TM ;-).. such as editing files larger than your memory allows etc., since it uses nmap-ish techniques.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:09:11 +0100, Allan Odgaard allan@macromates.com wrote:
On Jan 28, 2005, at 18:10, Sune Foldager wrote:
[ UltraEdit ] has a few advantages over TM ;-).. such as editing files larger than your memory allows
I think you need to re-factor your code if you consider this a reason to go with UE over TM ;)
I know you probably said that in jest, but there are times we've had that problem. The great thing about pure text editors like TM and UE are you can edit any file in them. Say I want to take a look at my huge CSV file...well, UE doesn't choke, but TM does. :-)
It's not always code we are looking at.
Patrick
On 28. jan 2005, at 19:51, Patrick Burleson wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:09:11 +0100, Allan Odgaard allan@macromates.com wrote:
I think you need to re-factor your code if you consider this a reason to go with UE over TM ;)
I know you probably said that in jest, but there are times we've had that problem. The great thing about pure text editors like TM and UE are you can edit any file in them. Say I want to take a look at my huge CSV file...well, UE doesn't choke, but TM does. :-)
That was kinda my point. If I were to use it as my _only_ text-editor, it can be a problem when I want to look at a long log-file, say.
Hey Justin,
My all time fav is Topstyle by Nick Bradbury (maker of Homesite), but I don't remember if it has a project drawer and not sure about syntaxes. Nonetheless, it's worth checking out. VERY usable and great UI design. Check out the demo.
http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp
-t
On Jan 27, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Justin French wrote:
I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him).
In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & Ruby syntax highlighter included.
Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC in years :)
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According to Tim Martens:
HTMLKit is pretty good as well, and free (me thinks?).
HTML-Kit[1] is pretty good yes and my favotite on Windows for HTML/PHP. One could also use a port of emacs/xemacs to get all the shiny modes and things that make this family attractive.
I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him).
I don't do Windows, but there's some days where I have to work with Windows coders, and the one editor that strikes me as the one closest to the TextMate goodness, with Project drawers and all the other things I have come to expect from a good editor, is Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/)
jonas
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