Open source editor

Rails
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does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

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Dan wrote:

does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

Check out http://www.openedpc.com for some cool PC stuff. I pretty much
use it as a definitive guide for free/open software.

Cheers,
Charles

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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:39:34AM +0100, Dan wrote:
} does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware
text
} editor?

It’s an acquired taste, but www.vim.org

–Greg

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For Rails…Radrails, which uses Eclipse as it’s base and includes
all kinds of nice Rails features/testing. http://www.radrails.org

Just an editor, JEdit is good. http://www.jedit.org/

Dave

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David Andrew T.
http://dathompson.blogspot.com
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does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware
text editor?

TextWrangler (Mac OS X)
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Now open source, but freeware

  • kris
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Dan wrote:

does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

Scite is also a good choice. Scintilla and SciTE
Available for Windows and Linux; and really fast

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Now open source

oops i meant to say “Not open source”.

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Dan wrote:

does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

Here are 2 text editors (not IDE) for Windows and 2 for Unix-like
systems.

On Windows:

Notepad++ 3.5 - Scintilla-based editor (more features than Scite)
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Vim and GVim 6.4 - GVim offers “easy-mode” if you don’t have time to
master vim keystrokes–take time to learn it an you’ll be amazingly
productive
http://www.vim.org

On *BSD and Linux:

Vim and GVim 6.4 - high learning curve, but it enables you to be more
productive than any other text editor once you master it
http://www.vim.org

NEdit - GUI text editor that is easy-to-use
http://www.nedit.org

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Dan wrote:

does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

gnu-emacs + ruby-mode + mmm-mode + rails-mode + ido + ruby-electric

running on X or win32 with Consolas font (thanks Microsoft)

essentially its a free textmate, with a few added festures like
esperanto spellcheck and tetris

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gnu-emacs + ruby-mode + mmm-mode + rails-mode + ido + ruby-electric

woops forgot ECB (file/SVN browser) + semantic bovinator + eieio ( i
think these help out with the auto-completions somehow, as if ‘link_to
“hi”’ was hard to type…)

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Dan wrote:

does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

For rails development RadRails is pretty sweet… but for just editing
text files (with
syntax highlighting, word completion, code folding, good searching, and
a basic execution
window) SciTE is pretty sweet. It comes with the Ruby and Python windows
installers;
available for *nix.

b

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Plain old vim with proper .rhtml syntax highlighting is all I’ve ever
seen a need for.

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:35 +0100, carmen wrote:

gnu-emacs + ruby-mode + mmm-mode + rails-mode + ido + ruby-electric

woops forgot ECB (file/SVN browser) + semantic bovinator + eieio ( i
think these help out with the auto-completions somehow, as if ‘link_to
“hi”’ was hard to type…)

Charlie B.
http://www.recentrambles.com

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Dan wrote:

does anyone know of a good place to find an open source / freeware text
editor?

Jedit (has a ruby plugin) Win/OS X/Linux
TextMate OS X

_tony

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Whenever this thread comes up, I get a chuckle - it’s like asking
“what’s
your favorite color?”.

That said, someone always mentions an editor+plugin combination that I
wind up trying - I guess the “perfect editor” is an ongoing quest…

Dave M.

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Has anyone added Eclipse? It has a nice ruby plugin as well.

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Has anyone added Eclipse? It has a nice ruby plugin as well.

Keep in mind that radrails is built on top of Eclipse, so it’s the best
of
both worlds. But, if I were to use Eclipse for strictly RoR development,
I’d
stick w/ RadRails.

Ryan