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Ask YC: Best text editor for Windows?
I'm stuck with a PC at work, and am missing TextMate. what editor should I use? Looking for something windows based (not XEmacs) for general use. Suggestions?
- vikas5678 19y agoI use Textpad a lot, cos its pretty simple looking, and yet has a lot of functionalities, and I open a lot of very huge xml documents in it(pretty stable), some other ex-colleagues of mine love(d) Notepad++. Some other people I know like Ultraedit, although I found it to be too complex for my liking.
- pingswept 19y ago(Notepad++)++
- edw519 19y agoTextpad can be as simple or complex as you want. I use nothing else any more.
- agotterer 19y agoI used textpad for years, recently switched to notepad++ and am very happy.
- showerst 19y agoAnother vote for textpad here, there are syntax files for nearly everything, and Search & Replace w/ Regex is really useful.
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- utnick 19y agowas going to suggest xemacs :(
- undees 19y agoInType and e are fairly TextMate-ish. The latter costs money, and the former has announced plans to set a price. They're both basic but usable, and compatible to some degree with TextMate snippets / bundles.
- jamongkad 19y agoI used to use Intype on my windows box before I made the jump to Ubuntu. Now I use VIM and never looked back. Intype is definitely not bad imho.
- alek 19y agoCream (a GVIM variant, which is a VIM variant, which is a...) http://cream.sf.net/ http://cream.sf.net/ you will need a day or two to get the hang of it, but once you do you won't ever want to go back. (you'll know when you start writing ":wq" in non-VI editors)
- tzury 19y agoScite. Scite is the one I used in windows for couple of years and kept it with me when switched to linux a year and a half ago.
- sosuke 19y agoNotepad++ is a good editor built off Scite with some nice additions. I keep both installed on most of the systems I work on and would recommend you give it a shot. Other editors I work with are far to heavy for quick changes or random filetype testing.
- thorax 19y agoPSPad is good enough for me. PHP I use Nusphere PHPed (not free).
- CHIEFARCHITECT 19y agoUltraEdit is a pretty adequate text editor if one is willing to do some minor configuration. It took me only 30 mins to master it. A txt editor is like most tools, one has to customize it to their needs and wants. The sword does not make the samurai. It is the samurai that makes the sword go. (General View)
- kencyber 19y agoI've been using UltraEdit for about 8 years now. Notepad++ is close, but the FTP plug-in just isn't quite as good (I use FTP a lot through my text editor and UltraEdit is the best). The best features of UltraEdit are it's macro recording and template (ie: code snippets) feature.
- davidw 19y agoMaybe you're a Mac guy rather than a Unix dude, but I put this together a while ago as a wiki, then 'froze' it into an article: http://www.welton.it/articles/windows_for_linux_users.html http://www.welton.it/articles/windows_for_linux_users.html
- Zak 19y agoNot XEmacs? I think GNU Emacs runs on Windows too.
- ivank 19y agoEclipse for its mark occurrences feature, easy editor splitting, and variable width font support (when it's occasionally needed).
- 3flp 19y agoEmacs + customisations.. nearly like Textpad but easier to use. Emacs is not really a text editor. It is some sort of OS for making text editors. You can have any text editor you like. Why would you use anything else? # There is a native Windows build. It is a normal Win app, with file selection dialogs, etc...
- yters 19y agoFor the windows build see here: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html This is the emacs wiki page on emacs for windows: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForWindows http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForWindows
- joshwa 19y agohttp://www.e-texteditor.com/ http://www.e-texteditor.com/ : "The Power of TextMate on Windows"
- dhouston 19y ago- editplus is great for general text editing (non-coding) - activestate komodo for python/perl/php - visual studio for c++
- kingnothing 19y agoI haven't used Windows in a while, but I think something I discovered right before I made the linux switch was called Programmer's Notepad. Try http://www.pnotepad.org/ http://www.pnotepad.org/
- aaco 19y agoVim. Both for Windows and Linux I use it, it's a good and very powerful editor. However it's not the type of editor that you'll get how to use it in 5 minutes (well, this is true for the very very basic use, just press "i" to insert text). Download the self-installing executable here: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
- kashif 19y agoJust upvoting ViM is not enough, so I put in this note. I have used Emacs and ViM and I am with ViM forever...
- yters 19y agoThere is a vi mode in emacs, though it just replicates the keybindings: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViperMode http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViperMode
- bprater 19y agoUltraedit+WebDrive was my wet dream. It was the only thing holding me back from switching to Mac 100% of the time, until Panic churned up Coda.
- klocksib 19y agoGNU Emacs. :)
- nreece 19y agoNotepad2: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/ http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
- kmt 19y agoReal programmers use... http://xkcd.com/378/ http://xkcd.com/378/
- fendale 19y agoThe fact that Textmate doesn't run on Windows is exactly why I stayed away from it on OS X - I am forced to use a windows machine at work, and am stuck in a terminal a lot of the time, so I decided to learn emacs instead. Once you get over the initial Emacs learning curve its great - then install the emacs code browser, and the rails plugins (if you do rails obviously) for extra productivity. See [this tutorial](http://sodonnell.wordpress.com/the-emacs-newbie-guide-for-rails/ http://sodonnell.wordpress.com/the-emacs-newbie-guide-for-ra...) to set it all up.
- projectileboy 19y agoI like Crimson Editor. I think it's a bit nicer than Textpad.
- jalammar 19y agoI like to use jEdit for coding. EditPlus is commonly used where i work so I use that for general text editing.