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Best Text Editors
Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:58 AM
Besides the obvious answer (Visual Studio) what do you folks use as text editors? I just downloaded two Vim and UltraEdit. I plan on trying to use Perl some in Windows, but I use the Text editors now for HTML development.

A tool I have really come to like (if you have Firefox) is the "view formatted source" plug-in.

This has proven to be an invaluable tool for viewing HTML source. I just wish I could save a page and edit it locally with this tool. If I had the time I'd write that myself.

So give your fave text editor a shout out - tell me why you like it.
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# re: Best Text Editors
Gravatar I started out in the Unix world and I still have a fondness for emacs.

It has been around for a very long time. People have contributing extensions to it for decades.
You can do anything in it. Browse the file system. Run a command shell. Telnet to remote computers. Run sql statements in oracle or sql server, etc.

You are doing these non file based tasks, you are still in an editing buffer. Just save the buffer and you have a log of all of the sql statements that you run.

There is a learning curve, but it is very powerful.
Left by Nick Harrison on 8/17/2005 11:11 AM
# re: Best Text Editors
Gravatar I didn't like the formatted source plug-in for Firefox because it's too slow. It's nice, but way too slow.

On my desktop, I use Notepad2 for most text content when I don't have VS open. It's open source, light-weight, and flexible, which are the primary goals as far as I'm concerned.
Left by Michael Flanakin on 8/17/2005 11:32 AM
# re: Best Text Editors
Gravatar Definitely EditPlus (2) - gave UltraEdit a try years back, but ended right back up in EditPlus...
Left by Jannik Anker on 8/18/2005 5:21 AM
# re: Best Text Editors
Gravatar Definitely EditPlus. An absolute must-have for any developer.
Left by Pranab on 12/30/2005 11:12 AM

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