Recommend me a text editor!

[Zdravko]

for html/css coding!

[LaRoza]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=554070

Programming Talk has many such posts. Sticky made for it also.

(GEdit, Kate, Kwrite, SciTE, Vim are top choices, pick your favourite)

For Windows editors, look at my wiki, http://laroza.pbwiki.com/Software I recommend Crimson Editor.

[Zdravko]

I posted here intentionally! I use Windows now!

[LaRoza]

I posted here intentionally! I use Windows now!

There was a Windows Programming Sticky, but all the info above should be enough.

Crimson Editor is very good. It is as simple and as complicated as you want.

[ukripper]

I posted here intentionally! I use Windows now!

JEDIT works both in windows and linux.
http://www.jedit.org/

[Vadi]

Notepad++

[Zdravko]

jEDIT is in Java. This is way too much for my weak machine.
Crimson editor - doesn't open the download links here: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
BTW, it is too old - latest version from 2004.

I don't really like Notepad++... Dunno why :(

[ukripper]

jEDIT is in Java. This is way too much for my weak machine.
Crimson editor - doesn't open the download links here: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
BTW, it is too old - latest version from 2004.

I don't really like Notepad++... Dunno why :(

What is your machine spec?

[Zdravko]

AMD AThlon XP 2200+, 1.8GHz, 248 MB of RAM

[LaRoza]

Link for Crimson Editor download http://robotics.snu.ac.kr/pds/CrimsonEditor/cedt370r.exe

[LaRoza]

jEDIT is in Java. This is way too much for my weak machine.
Crimson editor - doesn't open the download links here: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
BTW, it is too old - latest version from 2004.

I don't really like Notepad++... Dunno why :(

I never used jEDIT, but I would try it before judging.

Crimson Editor works fine, and is very useful and extensible, "too old" isn't valid in this case, it is very good, also, you can get the source code so you can do whatever you want.

I don't really like Notepad++ either, at least, compared to Crimson Editor.

[ukripper]

AMD AThlon XP 2200+, 1.8GHz, 248 MB of RAM

One of my machine is Athlon XP 1500+ 1.3ghz with 256 RAM, jedit works great on it. Java has improved alot especially JEDIT in performance. Try it out.

[Zdravko]

OMFG! Crimson Editor can not save correct UTF without BOM!
The validator says:
No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8. I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the "UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.

THis is ridiculous! I am using a 3 year old piece of software without an official download link! (a potentially harmful executable provided by an unnown person!!!) and finally a surprise! It does not follow the html specifications!

[LaRoza]

OMFG! Crimson Editor can not save correct UTF without BOM!
The validator says:

THis is ridiculous! I am using a 3 year old piece of software without an official download link! (a potentially harmful executable provided by an unnown person!!!) and finally a surprise! It does not follow the html specifications!

? If you don't like it, don't use it. It IS open source, so you can examine the code yourself, and improve it.

That is an official download link. It is from their site, yes, it is stored on a different server, like almost all software downloads.

Text editors aren't written in HTML, therefor cannot follow the specification.

For the ultimate text editor, use Vim http://www.vim.org/download.php

-EDIT You (should) can try all the text editors on my wiki, if you don't find one you like (which is unlikely) on my wiki, pm me with the ones you do like, so I can test them and add it to the wiki.

[ukripper]

You can always remove/uninstall if you don't like 'em.

[karellen]

OMFG! Crimson Editor can not save correct UTF without BOM!
The validator says:

THis is ridiculous! I am using a 3 year old piece of software without an official download link! (a potentially harmful executable provided by an unnown person!!!) and finally a surprise! It does not follow the html specifications!

is there a text editor that you actually like? from the (n+1)! choices out there? :confused:
these guys tried to help you and all you did is complain and complain some more...

[Buffalo Soldier]

My favourite when and if I have to be in Windows is Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)

[karellen]

My favourite when and if I have to be in Windows is Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)

bet he will say it's a piece of junk?

[LaRoza]

--EDIT

Post removed, issue resolved.

[Zdravko]

Sorry guys, I was just nervous. Now I feel much better. It seems that neither Notepad++, nor Crimson Editor provide the UTF-8 WITHOUT BOM, but this is more or less not such a big issue.
I like Crimson Editor. It looks simple and yet powerful to me! Many thanks for the recommendations!
Sorry, one more time, for what I said before. I had a tough day :(

[LaRoza]

Sorry, one more time, for what I said before. I had a tough day :(

Thats ok :D. I understand, removing my remarks....

[karellen]

nothing is worse than a bad day ;)
except two

[ukripper]

Atleast you apologised makes you a better human. That is why ubuntu is for human beings:)

[LaRoza]

That is why ubuntu is for human beings:)

Maybe I should stop using it, I am a bot.

[ukripper]

Maybe I should stop using it, I am a bot.

Not many chances I get to justify the title Ubuntu for human beings.. this one did let me do that :lolflag:

[karellen]

Maybe I should stop using it, I am a bot.

We are Borg...:lolflag:

[ukripper]

We are Borg...:lolflag:

How about Gollum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum :lolflag: - LINUX for GOLLUMS my new book

[LaRoza]

We are Borg...:lolflag:

...but open source, not that proprietary alien software she used.

[karellen]

...but open source, not that proprietary alien software she used.

that's why Picard was able to "solve" their bugs...;)

[LaRoza]

that's why Picard was able to "solve" their bugs...;)

"Undocumented features", not bugs.