6/21 What is the best text editor for Windows? I need it to be small, fast,
unlimited file size, syntax highlighting, and not Emacs.
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\_ WinEdit. Can search text in a file using Perl regex. Beat that!
\_ Lemmy... vi for windows and does syntax highlighting and a bunch
of other cool things...
\_ without a doubt: gvim/vim 5.3 -- full executable is 500K.
Download at http://www.vim.org
\_ Hm. Forgot to say "not Vi either." No way am I wasting the
braincells to memorize 2 billion unintuitive commands and
enter a special mode when I want to type them. Actually
forget about "small" too. This is America. I found
UltraEdit32, seems good 'nuff, and has a hex editor. I
would use Emacs but I find its Windoze integration
lacking.
\_ Ah, using gvim you don't have to use the VI commands if
you don't want to (thought they're worth learning--I
used emacs until I switched and found the vi commands
easy to learn). Use mouse-highlight, cursor keys, etc.
Easy to make macros, too.
\_ Much smaller Norton Editor (old old runs in dos but works) but it
doesn't do syntax highlighting. It matches parens and braces but
that's it. Full executable is about 30k.
\_ Whatever happened to QEdit? -tom
\_ Never used it.
\_ still use it as DOS editor of choice for batch files
QEdit became commercial TSE (The SemWare Editor?)
I still have QEdit Advanced v3.00, one of the last
versions that was still shareware
\_ well, you could use jove. Dunno about unlimited file size.
and no syntax sytuff. or jed, I suppose.
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