Posted by: Administrator
on October 07, 2004 11:49 PM
Good article on Editors. I use neither vi or EMACS. This is a bit surprising considering my time in the computer realm.
I have discovered an oft-overlooked gem as far as editors. It is called SciTE (<A HREF="http://www.scintilla.org/" title="scintilla.org">www.scintilla.org</a scintilla.org>) which is the Scintilla Text Editor written by Neil Hodgson. There is a version for both Linux and that other operating system from Redmond, Washington.
SciTE has highlighting for a huge number of languages but the version I have does not have a spell checker. It sounded like this was a issue for you but I personally don't mind that omission.
The tool does include features like tabbed multi-documents, line numbering, display of control characters such as EOL and CR, and whitespace. The added special bonus is that if you can show SciTE where they are, it can invoke a compiler for the language you are using, and show you the output for the program you are writing. Right now I am using it to learn Java and have found it exceptional as a "not as hard to learn as an IDE" tool with a lot of the features.
I recommend to everyone they load it and see if they find it useful. As you stated, there are no shortages of editors that run under Linux. So, if SciTE does not fil your needs, you can always find another that does. It fills mine, but I'm a rank amateur at coding since my education isin the hardware realm.
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Posted by: Administrator on October 07, 2004 11:49 PMI have discovered an oft-overlooked gem as far as editors. It is called SciTE (<A HREF="http://www.scintilla.org/" title="scintilla.org">www.scintilla.org</a scintilla.org>) which is the Scintilla Text Editor written by Neil Hodgson. There is a version for both Linux and that other operating system from Redmond, Washington.
SciTE has highlighting for a huge number of languages but the version I have does not have a spell checker. It sounded like this was a issue for you but I personally don't mind that omission.
The tool does include features like tabbed multi-documents, line numbering, display of control characters such as EOL and CR, and whitespace. The added special bonus is that if you can show SciTE where they are, it can invoke a compiler for the language you are using, and show you the output for the program you are writing. Right now I am using it to learn Java and have found it exceptional as a "not as hard to learn as an IDE" tool with a lot of the features.
I recommend to everyone they load it and see if they find it useful. As you stated, there are no shortages of editors that run under Linux. So, if SciTE does not fil your needs, you can always find another that does. It fills mine, but I'm a rank amateur at coding since my education isin the hardware realm.
Good Luck and Good Linux,
Doctor Digital
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