Newbie question

[Quasimodo]

If you're using Windows, I've found PythonWin also works pretty well, and
adds quite a bit of extra functionality you won't get in a plain text
editor.



"Pat McCann" <thisis at bboogguusss.org> wrote in message
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> ttdckd at aol.com (TTDCKD) writes:
>
> > This may sound stupid but im realy new to programming and i dont know
what a
> > text editor is. I need to know what a text editor is so i can creat
module
> > files in the future.
>
> Others have explained that it allows you to edit text.
>
> They are often just called "editors" or "program(ming) editors".
>
> There are a few characteristics that they usually don't share with a
> word processor (not exactly true, but think of it this way for now):
>
> -- The files hold plain ASCII text very much like what you see when you're
> editing.  No hidden codes to mark paragraphs, bold, etc.
>
> -- There is only one character font and it is of fixed size.
>
> -- The editor often has functions specifically to ease programming.
>
> Eventually you should learn Emacs (or XEmacs) and "vi" and maybe
> someone's idea of a good GUI editor and decide which you prefer.  They
> make progamming (and much other stuff which you wouldn't believe) much
> easier and faster than a simple thing like Notepad.  Some people do most
> of their work with nothing but their editors as they have command line
> interface windows as well as text editing windows.  They may seem hard
> to learn at first, but you'll quickly have your fingers trained to do
> things without thinking (and without strangling your mouse, though you
> can do that too if you want).