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Top Forums Programming Open Source What editor does everyone use? Post 75703 by tmarikle on Tuesday 21st of June 2005 01:42:29 PM
Old 06-21-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
UltraEdit because it supports syntax highlighting for many dozens of languages/environments.
The bad part is it runs on Windows - I think there is an X version coming out, dunno.
UltraEdit is a great editor but, as you said, it's Windows only. You can use the ftp save as but that is still not that great.

I prefer vi since it is just about on every Unix box that I've ever used and, once you get used to it, navigation and feature use is only a couple of keystokes away. A couple of features that are very handy are bookmarks, copy and paste buffers, launching a program and automatically reading its output into your text, lauching a program using your text as input. These will become second nature and you'll get going pretty fast. I kind of wish UltraEdit could switch on a vi mode once in awhile.

Thomas
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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   Options
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