# A good text editor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 8, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885 "2006-04-08T20:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/21 "2006-04-10T01:52:56Z")
ehh… Notepad… except for the whole lagg with larger files its nice. I think i’ll try out that VI thing tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/22 "2006-04-10T02:17:38Z")
Notepad++; [whisper]Do emacs and vi work for Windows? I thought you needed a unix terminal… but then again, I have no idea what I’m talking about.[/whisper] ---
**Author:** ![thoriphes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@thoriphes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thoriphes)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/23 "2006-04-10T05:49:03Z")
> [@nokrev](#): > > Notepad++; > > [whisper]Do emacs and vi work for Windows? I thought you needed a unix terminal… but then again, I have no idea what I’m talking about.[/whisper] Notepad++ is the way to go. I also use Crimson Editor on my laptop, but I like Notepad++'s search across files feature (good for when you forgot which file you declared that one variable in). I’m not sure about emacs, but you can get vi to work through cygwin, though it is just horrid, wreaking of an effervescent pool of vomit and sinew. The version of vi that you can download with cygwin is nothing like the real thing. Some of the shortcuts are somewhat different and not as easy to work with. For some reason when I’m in insert mode (cygwin’s ‘vim’) and I try to use the arrow keys for moving the cursor, it’ll pop me out of insert mode. I mean come on. ---
**Author:** ![RabBell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rabbell/32/340_2.png) [@RabBell](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RabBell)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/24 "2006-04-10T08:04:09Z")
gotta pimp textpad :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![ramie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@ramie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ramie)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/25 "2006-04-10T08:17:54Z")
VIm if your cool, Emacs if your smart and textpad if your lazy, cool and smart ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/26 "2006-04-10T10:32:40Z")
> [@nokrev](#): > > Notepad++; > > [whisper]Do emacs and vi work for Windows? I thought you needed a unix terminal… but then again, I have no idea what I’m talking about.[/whisper] Emacs does: [EmacsWiki: EmacsW32](http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32) Alternatively, Lisp in a Box comes with a version of Emacs, as well 🙂 Of course, Emacs isn’t perfect (I need about half an hour’s worth of setup and messing around with ~/.emacs before I can get it to work to my satisfaction), but I haven’t found any other editor that has such a good autoindent feature… that, and I really love the shell (M-x shell) and debug capabilities. @thor: You should look at [ctags](http://ctags.sf.net/) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![unclesond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@unclesond](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/unclesond)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/27 "2006-04-10T10:48:32Z")
> [@signifer123](#): > > i like notepad++ > [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm](http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) > > tons of feauture but loads just about as fast as wordpad/notepad, and supports plugins I just tried it out, very nice. my new notepad replacement. :geek: ---
**Author:** ![Sliker\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@Sliker\_Hawk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sliker_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/28 "2006-04-11T12:52:21Z")
I’ve tried notepad++, but there was something I didn’t like about it… I can’t remember what though (great argument). [Programmers Notepad](http://www.pnotepad.org/) is the best one I’ve tried. Syntax highlighting, it knows what kind of code there is in each file, you can change the colours, it handles indenting really well… It’s got tabs… And a few other things. ---
**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/29 "2006-04-11T12:54:13Z")
I use crimson editor, I cant remember the site so u can google it:D (google is my friend) ---
**Author:** ![haam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a698b9/32.png) [@haam](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/haam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/30 "2006-04-11T15:51:23Z")
[quote=λ]NO! [SIZE=1]for those not enlightened: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor\_war](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war)[/SIZE][/quote] jesus! there’s an entry in the online encyclopedia about hackers and programmers “flaming” each other over which is the best text editor? with definitions on internet slang? i am so glad i’m not going to live to see the “information age” come to complete fruition. :hurt: ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Fat\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@Jolly\_Fat\_Man](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jolly_Fat_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/31 "2006-04-11T15:53:08Z")
I don’t mind Gedit or Nano myself. Although Notepad is fine as well. ---
**Author:** ![Scarybug](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/scarybug/32/2863_2.png) [@Scarybug](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Scarybug)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885/32 "2006-04-11T16:27:16Z")
TextPad, Scintilla, and UltraEdit are all very good Windows text editors. They do Syntax highlighting very well, and have nice customizable preferences. Good find/replace options, etc. TextPad is not freeware, it’s shareware, and nagware to boot, but you CAN easily get lots of syntax files for things you wouldn’t think you could (Tads2!!!), and you can easily define your own! Which is great if you’re designing your own meta-programming language or I/O format. Textpad will also compile Java, I think. For Mac, I really like TextWrangler for coding. It’s also quite good at syntax highlighting. It has a “convert to ASCII” option, and an auto-backup feature that I use whenever i’m coding at work. [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-text-editor/184885.md?page=1)