2009/11/27 Steve Borho <[email protected]>
> I'm looking for feedback about including a small lightweight editor
> with the TortoiseHg Windows installer that we can set as the default
> visual editor. The main reason for this is notepad.exe cannot read
> unix eoln files, and it would be nice if our default editor handled
> unicode and had at least some simple syntax highlighting.
>
> The two obvious candidates are Notepad2 and Notepad++, both are free
> software.
>
> My initial impression is that Notepad2 is the better choice for our
> purposes, as it's completely self-contained in a 1.4MB executable
> file.
>
> Notepad++ would require packaging all of it's support directories.
>
> Thoughts?
>
This is only a problem to users that have unix line endings, which they can
solve by setting EDITOR or installing a notepad replacement. Those uses have
probably already done so for other reasons that THG.
The number of editors is large, and I believe that there is not one that
will satisfy all. Some use ultraedit, some notepad++, some komodo, some
emacs, some vi.
I don't think that it is necessary to bundle an editor, but if you decide to
do so, please choose one that is as small as possible.
Syntax highlighting is nice, but I wouldn't bundle an editor to get that.
Regards,
Peer
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