List your favorite text editor.

[Thorham]

List your favorite text editor for the Amiga here. I want to know what everyone is using, and why

Mine is FrexxEd (free, open source). Powerful right out of the box, and insanely configurable through it's script language FPL which is 99% C (if you know C, then you know FPL). If some feature you need or want is missing, just write it yourself in FPL. The possibilities are almost endless.

So, what about you guys?

[StingRay]

Still CED for me.

[pmc]

Originally Posted by Thoram

List your favorite text editor for the Amiga here.

None of them

Sorry, I'm just too used to bigger displays, better resolution, drag and drop editing, column mode editing, syntax highlighting, easy multi file editing and on and on and on of a modern text editor...

...say UltraEdit for example.

Now I'll just wait for people to tell me all of this is available on some Amiga text editor - but I still won't change

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by pmc

Sorry, I'm just too used to bigger displays, better resolution, drag and drop editing, column mode editing, syntax highlighting, easy multi file editing and on and on and on of a modern text editor...

Hmm, that column editing business that UltraEdit offers sounds nice! Gonna try to implement it in FrexxEd.

[Leffmann]

There are probably better editors on the Amiga today, but back then I always used Cygnus Editor. On the Mac I use SubethaEdit and on Windows I use Programmer's Notepad.

[pmc]

Originally Posted by Thoram

Hmm, that column editing business that UltraEdit offers sounds nice!

It really is Thoram!

If I want to put say, for example, dc.w in front of a thousand lines of text then I can do it with a couple of mouse clicks and typing dc.w just once.

Comes in *very* handy.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by pmc

If I want to put say, for example, dc.w in front of a thousand lines of text then I can do it with a couple of mouse clicks and typing dc.w just once.

Nothing a macro in ASM-One/Pro couldn't do. But I agree, UltraEdit rocks.

[Leffmann]

Yeah I agree. Some programmers swear that copy and paste editing methods and column editing is error prone, but I think it's a must.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by pmc

If I want to put say, for example, dc.w in front of a thousand lines of text then I can do it with a couple of mouse clicks and typing dc.w just once.

Indeed, and I've already implemented the basics of that. I just can't insert text+numbers yet, and I have no trailing zeros for the numbers, either. It's not super fast, but still very usable (although it doesn't exactly insert anything, it currently just writes out a table into the text).

The main challenge (perhaps it's easy, I don't know) is UltaEdit's column mode, which does a lot more than inserting columns, but I don't know if it's needed.

Originally Posted by StingRay

Nothing a macro in ASM-One/Pro couldn't do. But I agree, UltraEdit rocks.

It's nicer to have a nice window pop-up which allows you to enter a string/number/both (FrexxEd allows you to make that very easily)

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by Thorham

It's nicer to have a nice window pop-up which allows you to enter a string/number/both (FrexxEd allows you to make that very easily)

Of course, I totally agree on that. However, one shouldn't underestimate the "create macro" feature the editor of Asm-One/Pro offers (if you never used it, try right amiga + , which will allow you to create a macro), I often used it for kinda repetitive tasks.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by StingRay

Of course, I totally agree on that. However, one shouldn't underestimate the "create macro" feature the editor of Asm-One/Pro offers (if you never used it, try right amiga + , which will allow you to create a macro), I often used it for kinda repetitive tasks.

Is it as powerful as CygnusEd's macro functionality? As you probably know, CygnusEd can put anything in a macro, such as menu options, and different search/replace strings.

[HonestFlames]

For text... CygnusED, all the way. It's fast, powerful and lightweight. Everything an editor should be.

For code... GoldED. Syntax highlighting isn't just eye-candy, it's damn useful.

[Asle]

Viva emacs

[ppill]

Originally Posted by pmc

None of them

Sorry, I'm just too used to bigger displays, better resolution, drag and drop editing, column mode editing, syntax highlighting, easy multi file editing and on and on and on of a modern text editor...

...say UltraEdit for example.

Now I'll just wait for people to tell me all of this is available on some Amiga text editor - but I still won't change

I think GoldED covers much of what you've said. Not that it will change anything

For me it's TurboText.

Also remember being very fond of another one called BlacksEditor (also known as BED).

And there's always Vim which has amiga roots (it was first developed for AmigaOS). But that's more a life's philosophy than an editor

[kriz]

Golded and ced

[phx]

I have to agree with most of the posters here: using CEd everywhere. CEd for AmigaOS/68k, CEd for OS4 and CEd for MorphOS.

Even when we got some better editors in the meantime, you just get used to it. It's fast and lightweight and I don't really need syntax-highlighting.

Under Unix I got used to "joe".

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Is it as powerful as CygnusEd's macro functionality? As you probably know, CygnusEd can put anything in a macro, such as menu options, and different search/replace strings.

No, of course it's not as powerful as CED's macro features. It's hard to beat CED anyway. Still, the macro features of ASM-One/Pro are quite handy.

[squidbass]

I just wish I could get vim to work correctly under amigaos. Then I'd be happy.

[korruptor]

I actually ended up using Xcode on the Mac, then did the syntax highlighting for Textmate. I used to use GoldEd on the Amiga, but I'm flirting with Frex now...

[Lonewolf10]

I use plain ED most of the time for normal text use (amigaguides and normal text files), but prefer Devpac 2 & 3.18 for ASM work.
Which reminds me... how many spaces *should* the tab key equal? When coding, or typing text, everything is fine, but when listing it back using ppmore (which I renamed "muchmore" ages ago, and never changed it back - it's kinda funny typing "muchmore ram:" when I want to display files (I always transfer files to the RAM disk for editing... saves a little on the disk/hard drives, as long as I remember to transfer to the drive before resetting, or running my ASM code)).

err... rambling a little...


Edit: Rambled and forgot to finish what I was saying! When listing it back some lines are out of sync, despite being perfectly aligned within ED and the Devpac editors.


Regards,
Lonewolf10