John Salerno wrote: > I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, > but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for > suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the features > for coding, such as syntax highlighting, etc.) but not a full IDE with > all the fancy jazz (GUI developer, UML diagrams, etc.). > > Ideally, it would be something I could even put on a flash drive and > move from computer to computer, but this isn't necessary. Just something > I can immediately use in either Windows or Linux (or Mac, if necessary). > <SNIP>
Hi John, I am yet another user of (g)vim. The good thing about gvim is that for normal editing, a lot can be done from the drop-down menus. You need to get hold of a list of the vim commands to learn and what to learn first (anyone?), as there is a huge amount of functionality in vim, and you can do a lot with a little. Personally, I have never done more than poke at the edges of the internal scripting of vim as I prefer: :%!gawk 'awk one liner' Which sends text to the external shell for processing by another command (in this case gawk) Gvim on windows is a life-saver for me as I have files with different line terminators from my unix work, and it opens those. The only thing I miss in gvim is a mode that would try to display HTML to say the degree that the lynx/links browsers do. (http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/, http://lynx.browser.org/). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list