Any Suggestions for an Editor with MS-Windows ?

[Robert Amesz]

Geoff Talvola wrote:

> At 03:43 PM 7/24/01 +0000, Robert Amesz wrote:
> 
>>SciTE Edit (I believe the URL is something like www.scintilla.org)
>>is pretty nice for us Pythoneers. If only it could open multiple
>>files... 
> 
> SciTE _can_ open multiple files if you configure it properly!  You
> just have to edit some of the settings in SciTEGlobal.properties. 
> I think I had to make the tabbar visible and increase the number of
> buffers, or something along those lines.

Now that is _excellent_ news. Thanks, I'll look into it.

<some time later, spending some time to upgrade from 1.37 to 1.38 - as 
it's only a 330Kb download, not a great chore>

You're quite right, it works like a charm. I don't know how I 
overlooked that feature. (Could be the naming. 'Buffers' certainly 
isn't the word I would go looking for with regards to this.)

<spending some more time getting the code completion feature to work>

Very nice. A pity I had to exclude wxWindows: a .dll caused a crash 
when building the .api file. (I forgot to write down the exact .dll and 
the error it caused, sorry.) Some manual tweaking of the .api file 
could make this feature more helpful still.

Overall conclusion: SciTE is a very nice code editor, and it supports 
syntax coulouring for a large number of languages. It is highly 
configurable, except, strangely enough, the key bindings. (Or have I 
overlooked something once again?) You can launch a script you're 
working on from the editor, and it does so 'out of the box'. It doesn't 
have a huge number of features, but it does have all the essential 
ones, and a great deal of thought seems to have gone into the 
implementation of those. Also. it's small enough so you can carry it on 
a floppy disk, and requires no installation. I've tested it under 
Windows, but there's a Unix + GTK version too. And, if you're still not 
happy, you can get the C++ source code and modify it.

So it's thumbs up for this editor.


Robert Amesz