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E text editor version 2 released
- karl11 16y agoLove this text editor. Looking forward to trying this out.
- edanm 16y agoI'm really interested in seeing what the "vim inspired command-mode" is all about. Anyone know where I can see a screencast? (Having said that, I seriously doubt anyone can pry me from my Sublime Text. Multiple-cursor editing is just a much better model for editing than anything I've ever seen before or since).
- CWIZO 16y agoWatch the screencast. This editor also has multiple-cursor editing.
- edanm 16y agoAs far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors. So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a small deal but is actually huge. I'm planning to write up a post about it some day, but I'd encourage anyone interested to check out Sublime Text's multiple editing if you have some time.
- CWIZO 16y agoI'd have to check E if it has this feature or not. I must say that I enjoy using it in Sublime very much. Quite frankly, multiple-cursors feature is a deal breaker for me. I'll consider switching to E if it get's SFTP support so I can remove WinSCP from my workflow.
- naner 16y agoI can't imagine a situation where this functionality would be useful. Can you give an example?
- ghfdrvtsyup 16y agoI'm not sure exactly the type of functionality he's talking about, but in a shared session, the ability of two people to modify a file simultaneously would be extremely useful in certain circumstances.
- sanswork 16y agoWhen one doesn't know how to use regexs for S&R?
- tene 16y agoThen you spend ten minutes learning the basics of a very powerful, widely-used tool that will support your text-editing tasks for many years to come. I've often seen reluctance to actually put in time to learn powerful tools. I plan to be programming and working as a sysadmin for many years to come, and it's obvious to me that the sooner I learn to use more-powerful tools, the greater the benefit is to me over the rest of my programming career. You can get the basics of regular expressions down in an hour or so, and progressively learn more as you encounter it, and that benefit will pay off repeatedly, and yet I've seen many people refusing to learn things like that. Anyone have any insight into this?
- edanm 16y agoI think it's a mix. First, learning is hard. Even if it's worth the time, it's still hard. Easier to be lazy and not learn anything, even if you know better. Second, most new tools are not worth learning. More importantly, learning all the tools that make you better is definitely a wrong move. So people are naturally reluctant: they figure if it's really important, they'll learn it eventually when they run into it again (like the proverbial sysadmin who doesn't do anything unless he's asked to do it 4 times).
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- frio 16y agoI believe it is "true" multi-cursor (I went from e -> Sublime, and used it semi-frequently), but you'd have to test to confirm (I only used a limited subset of the functionality). Regardless, I really, really love Sublime too. I wish it was available on other platforms.
- Popcorn 16y agoWhich screen-cast are you referring to? The one on the front page is the old e.
- cheald 16y agoThe last time I tried e, it took over my entire system. I had context menu entries floating around for months after I uninstalled it. Ugh.
- msbarnett 16y agoAlternate headline: Textmate clone beats Textmate to version 2. This was pretty much my text editor of choice when I had to use a Windows box.
- nanairo 16y agoIn other news, Chrome, a Firefox clone, has beaten Firefox to version 4, and also to version 5... ... Or maybe, just maybe, comparing version numbers across different programs is completely useless.
- sjs 16y agoBetter not compare releases and new features either ... like it or not TextMate is stagnant.
- nanairo 16y agoIf you want to compare features, then please do. I love TextMate but it's a tool, and I'm happy to drop it if something better comes along (which might be TM2 or not, don't care). But discussing/comparing features is a sensible topic. Saying that E-text beat Textmate to version 2 it useless. First, version number has nothing to do with features (as I was pointing out in the browser world). Second you can say E-text 2 is better than the latest Textmate, but nothing more: nobody apart from the author (and his collaborator) knows what's TM2 gonna be like.
- gord 16y agoI dislike admitting that Chrome is a lot faster than Firefox in some useful ways. One useful way I ran into is with 2000+ svg objects in a custom UI. SVG + Javascript is a fantastic platform for user interfaces, in my experience... compared to both HTML divs / css /js and also Cocoa native. Please google, turn on svg in Android...
- rimantas 16y agoWell, E was inspired heavily by Textmate and IIRC the author of Textmate was involved a bit: http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/11 http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/11
- iamcalledrob 16y agoIt's great to see progress being made with the TextMate model. If E was brought properly to OS X, there could quite possible be a TextMate coup.
- AdamGibbins 16y agoE was my editor of choice when Windows was my primary OS and a very nice editor it was. It's a shame there's no Linux version :(
- bnjamin 16y agoThe author open sourced most of the code. You can find it here http://github.com/etexteditor/e http://github.com/etexteditor/e you should be able to compile a version that works with linux.
- AdamGibbins 16y agoOh wow, thanks, wasn't aware of this. You say "most of the code" - do you know what's missing?
- Stwerner 16y agoIt was mine too, and I had that same thought a few days ago, apparently e works fine in wine
- scorpion032 16y agoYea, that is what Linux needs badly. Another text editor.
- mark_l_watson 16y agoI just got an email about the free update today. I only boot my Windows laptop about once a week, but I am looking forward to kicking the tires of the new version. Good editor. E makes developing on Windows 7 nicer, but not as nice as OS X or Ubuntu.
- proee 16y agoI wish there was a split view option.
- oneplusone 16y agoThere is? Just drag a tab to the side or the bottom.
- dmnd 16y agoPretty annoying that I can't even try out e2 as I've had my licensed copy of e installed for longer than the trial period.
- daeken 16y agoRan into this myself. I moved my license key (in your user's AppData\Roaming\e directory, filename "license_key") out of the way, then it gave me 30 days to try it out, but YMMV.
- safetytrick 16y agoI don't see significant enough improvements to make this a 2.0 release.
- daychilde 16y agoMaybe I'm missing something -- I write PHP files with HTML sections - and often CSS <style> sections in HTML. I can't figure out how to get true multi-language highlighting working. Does anyone else have this working? If I choose HTML as the document type, I can style some PHP elements - but CSS in particular is just standard foreground-on-background... Otherwise, this looks like a replacement for PSPad, which is my current choice.
- daychilde 16y agoWell, further research and messing around: It looks like multiple-language highlighting (a single document with HTML, PHP, and CSS) is not really available. I looked in the forum to try and see if I could figure out how to maybe add it myself - but I see a whole lot of posts looking for help with no answers - and I didn't find anything that helps me figure out how to get started maybe adding this functionality. I poked around in the various files included with the program, and I don't see where the definitions are... Meh. It's a pity - this looks fantastic, but it won't work for me.
- makmanalp 16y agoI wonder how the "open company" thing turned out: http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany http://e-texteditor.com/wiki/index.php/OpenCompany http://e-texteditor.com/wiki/index.php/OpenCompany since it looks like this new version is closed again.
- artost 16y agoAccording to the forum the source should be up in a weeks time.
- est 16y agoHow is Intype compared to e2 now?
- digispaghetti 16y agoHaving been a E-Texteditor user since 2008 I was quite excited about this released - but having a look over it, there is nothing in this new release that makes it worth me paying again for the update. I'll stick to the 1.x branch, and while it may cost more I'm seriously considering Sublime as a purchase.
- cmykgrayscale 16y agoI'm an avid textmate user on my macbook. So, I decided to give e a shot on my desktop a few months ago. Initially I thought it was pretty cool that i could use all my bundles. but as I used it more I realized that there were too many quirks and missing features (like when you select a word it highlights all occurrences, auto brace completion, split view, etc) I switched back to notepad++.