How about Best Text Editor?

PFE has 32-bit versions as well - you can get it from

Even though it hasn't been developed for years, it's still a very nice editor. It is not so hot on features compared to more modern offerings, but it is small, very fast, and works well with lots of open windows visibile at once.

The author also licenses the editor commercially - I've seen programs (Lattice programmable logic software, for example) that use a newer version of PFE with syntax highlighting.

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I have used codewright and found it slow and clunky. It took around 10 seconds to auto complete a function name even when I remembered the key sequence to get it to perform that action.

I use ED for Windows. I have had a great deal of success with it in a variety of langauges. It is easy to teach it assembler for a number of different processors so that the syntax highlighting and indentation work. It comes with support for a number of languages and writing your own support is easy - it took all of half an hour to configure it to understand our own scripting language.

Column mode editing - Tick

Regular expressions - Tick

Build by invoking Make scripts from a toolbar button - Tick

Point and click/drag and drop editing - Tick

Project based find/replace in files - Tick

One of the best features is the project source browser which takes you to the function code/type definition/#define in one mouse click.

Support response time usually measured in minutes despite the fact that they are in Australia and I am in the UK. more info at

Ian

I have grown quite fond of EditPlus lately.

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We only use Windoze platforms, and, as I said, we already use Codewright, and are quite happy with it, why learn yet another new one?

Yes. Slickedit does. Selective display based on search (regex, of course), indentation level or braces, with a few canned ones like function definitions, function headings (showing comments before the function definition), hide current block, and hide all comments. Each line with hidden text after it has an expansion button to see the text.

Point and click to locate the cursor, highlight text, define blocks (possibly columnar -- I can't verbalize how handy that is, but it is), click and drag to move things.

Regular typing for composition, of course.

Good grief. To repeat the above: My advice was for Tim Wescott, who planned to go buy a copy, not for you.

My objection is to your recommendation that he should purchase Codewright instead of another editor just as good (imo better in a number of ways) without any knowledge of the other editor. Personally, I like to try editors, and have a passing familiarity with quite a few, so my recommendation is based on something other than blind devotion.

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Nope; one more: thanks.

Agree, and just like a talented programmer can write Fortran in any programming language he/she does not need an editor. They just copy direcly from the keyboard into the compiler, if they use a compiler at all.

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Oh, OK. Here's how that all works using gvim:

1. Point+click locates the cursor
2. Click, drag, release highlights text
3. Click, ctrl-v, shift+click defines a columnar block
4. cut (button, menu item or keyboard) and paste (button, menu item or keyboard) is the method I use to move things

Understood. Also, if it helps, I'm not an "editor evangelist" -- just somebody who got tired of being an editor nomad. In my case, I calculated that my brain cells had enough capacity to learn one more editor, but I vowed to make it my last one. I've been happy with my choice, but I use the editor daily and I am a very fast typist. If your usage is only occasional, or if you are a two-finger typist, you will definitely want something else. I hope that helps.

IMHO, there's very little objective information about editors available. Every single one of them is "Best In Universe For All Purposes And All Users" according to their users. In sorting out evangelists from pragmatists in general, I often find it useful to ask, "In what circumstances would this method/tool/technique be inappropriate?" If I get the answer that it's univerally applicable, I usually conclude that I'm talking to an evangelist and discount their "information" proportionately.

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Actually I spend enough time at the keyboard that I've switched to Dvorak layout -- I got a 20% speedup in typing speed and I don't have to worry about anyone else messing with my machine (nor, unfortunately, do I have to ask myself if I can be productive on a QWERTY keyboard -- but then, its so broken they had to print the legend on the key caps!).

Does gvim do syntax highlighting, and can you configure the syntax highlighting with scripts?

Yes, it does. Esc-> : -> syn on. You can control syntax highlighting by editing a configuration file and sourcing it. For example, if mycolors.vim is your own configuration, you can have something like `source /path/to/mycolors.vim` in your .vimrc/.gvimrc, so that the syntax highlighting in mycolors.vim is read everytime vim/gvim starts.

I'd suggest you to look at vim.org. comp.editors is also a good place.

-siddharth

Do you find it difficult to switch back and forth between QWERTY and Dvorak? Assuming that you do keyboard mapping in the OS, have you found that in certain situations the system insists on QWERTY? The obvious one is the BIOS settings, and Win9X users lose keyboard mapping in DOS mode. I don't know of a case where Linux/OS X/BSD get the wrong keyboard after booting, but I don't use Dvorak and so would not notice.

MED - Is that Matthias Pfersdorff's Mr. Ed? I used that on both OS/2 and Windows, but he stopped development on the OS/2 version.

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The Windows version continues slowly. For example, folding is in the list of planned features since years. Nevertheless I like it very much for editing sources.

Oliver

Good to know that it's still around. It's a nice editor, and I found Matthias to be very responsive regarding bug reports and suggested features.