[Edu-sig] editor for children

[gen2n]

My believed editor for children is Czech PSPad, that is also located to 
English. That is why I write about.
There are many features in it and seems to be very stable even on our W98.

Just pickung up from www.pspad.com some functions:
Why PSPad ?
   * do you work with various programming environments ?
   * do you like highlighted syntax in code ?
   * do you need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities 
of a mighty code editor ?
   * are you looking for a tool to work with plain text ?
   * do you want to save money and still have the functionality of 
professional products ?
   * then PSPad is for you.

PSPad features:
    *  work with projects
   * work on several documents at the same time (MDI)
   * Save desktop session to later reopen all open files
   * FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web
   * macro recorder to record, save and load macros
   * search and replace in files
   * text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
   * templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...)
   * installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, 
VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,...
   * syntax highlighting auto set by file type
   * user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
   * auto correction
   * inteligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
   * full HEX editor
   * call external programs, different for each environment
   * external compiler with catch command output, log window, log 
parser for each environment for "IDE" effect
   * color syntax highlight printing and print preview
   * integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, 
conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
   * integrated free version of top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
   * export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format into file or clipboard
   * column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ...
   * reformat and compress HTML code, tags char case change
   * line sorting with ability to sort on defined column, with option 
to drop duplicates
   * ASCII chart with HTML entities
   * Code explorer for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP, and more in future
   * spell checker
   * internal web browser with APACHE support
   * matching bracket highlighting
   * ...

So thats all.
Pavel Kosina

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Reuben Grinberg napsal(a):

> Vi/ vim and emacs are great editors for programmers that have the time 
> to learn all their functionality. However, the learning curve for both 
> of these editors is steep. They are extremely different from anything 
> most students are familiar with (namely Microsoft Word, Notepad, Text 
> Areas in web apps, etc...) It's especially disturbing when you open 
> one of these for the first time and can't seem to quit! I mean, ESC-:q 
> and C-x C-c – pretty intuitive, huh?
>
> Nedit is a pretty good editor (http://www.nedit.org/) in several 
> respects. It has syntax hilighting for many programming languages, 
> uses the mouse and arrow keys, has menus, and uses familiar keyboard 
> shortcuts such as Control-C (copy) Control-V (paste), Control-X (cut), 
> ^S (save), ^O (open), ^W (close), ^Q (quit), ^P (print), etc... 
> There's basically no learning curve at all, but there are lots of 
> advanced features that are easy to get to.
>
> The downside is that it's not straight-forward to install on non-linux 
> machines (on most linux machines, just type nedit into a terminal and 
> it should launch. On Windows, it can be installed using Cygwin. Nedit 
> has a native binary for OS X and it can also be installed using Fink.
>
> My 2 cents,
> Reuben Grinberg
>
> P.S. I'm a 4th year CS major at Yale. For the record, I use emacs, 
> pico, nedit, and xcode to do most of my coding. Every once in a while 
> I'll use Eclipse for a project, but I find it really annoying to set up.
>
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2004, at 4:39 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
>> In a message of Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:02:47 +0430, "Lee Harr" writes:
>>
>>>> Does anybody have any recommendations for an editor for children?  
>>>> In th
>>>
>>> e
>>>
>>>> days I was speaking, I used an editor called 'brief' but I don't 
>>>> think t
>>>
>>> hey
>>>
>>>> are in business any more.
>>>
>>>
>>> What attributes are needed in a "for children" editor?
>>> (or is a list of attributes what you are looking for?)
>>>
>>
>> Not really.  I taught the after school club emacs, which meant we 
>> spent a lot
>> of time 'learnng how to use the editor'.  They were bright, heavily 
>> motivated,
>> and what was best, _only 5 of them_. And they got there by being very 
>> curious
>> what I was doing to present stuff to them.  But the next proposed 
>> summer lot
>> will be a group of 30, and I don't think I will have enough individual
>> instruction time.  So I wonder if there is an editor they are likely to
>> know -- perhaps unsurprisingly, most kids I know use Microsoft Word to
>> edit things, and that's a _rotten_ editor for programming -- of if there
>> is one that is known for the speed at which it is learnt.
>>
>> Laura
>>
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