[TxMt] comparable windows editor?

[Patrick Burleson]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:23:20 +1100, Justin French
<justin.french at 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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> Justin French, Indent.com.au
> justin.french at indent.com.au
> Web Application Development & Graphic Design
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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