John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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).
These days one can put entire OS to a flash drive, not only an editor. [...] > And naturally there are Emacs and Vim, but I just don't know if I need > to invest *that* much time into learning one of them (probably Vim, > since I hear it's lighter and faster). >From this thread you can easily see that people that never look for another editor are either Emacs or Vim users. I think you have two options here: either spend some time to master one of them, or spend the rest of your life looking for a good editor ;) [I compose this reply in XEmacs, yes] -- Sergei. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
