7/25 I'm wondering what people's favorite test editors are under Windows.
Notepad has terrible performance on very large ascii or binary files,
(X)Emacs is very slow-loading, and Vi is not mouse-driven. Does anyone
know a fast-loading, mouse driven text editor which handles large
(multi megabyte) text and binary files nimbly?
\_ One guy at work uses something called Visual Slick Edit. My
mom uses jEdit.
\_ Textpad, I sent in my $30-40.
\_ How about WordPad? Better than Notepad but not as full-blown as
M$ Word.
\_ How about WordPad? Better than Notepad but not as bloated as M$
Word. I use Emacs21 though.
\_ Ultraedit32 or nedi under cygwin. -John
\_ Last I checked vim does have mouse support. Googling for
"notepad replacement" is a fruitfull search but this is a very
religious topic and I'm not about to endorse any of them. -gabriel
\_ Standard GNU emacs works great for me. Of course I leave it open
all the time, but it seems quick to load when I launch it.
\_ I use textpad, and my colleagues editplus. I don't know if they
are good or not, but they work for what I do.
\_ I've been using vinvi32, which is a decent vi port to windows. Has
a good balance of mouse/keyboard UI, and is entriely contained in
a single .exe so installation/removal/management is easy.
I cannot comment on its abaility to open truly huge files. -ERic
\_ So anyone want to comment on hte performance of these with large
files? -op
\_ On OS X, vim is actually the only thing I've found that
will read some very large files (even more/less won't handle
some of them).
\_ When you're an administrator you don't have time to install
Cygwin or other UNIXy stuff on 1000s of machines in a 15000
employee company, so you use whatever you can find.
I prefer vi for configuration, but usually I use Notepad
because that's what exists on people's machines.
\_ Emacs -- made Windows so much more enjoyable for serious development
\_ Crisp (vertical edits are a breeze with this text editor) |
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