{"id":329,"date":"2007-11-05T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T22:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2007\/11\/05\/the-programmers-text-editor\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T22:44:53","slug":"the-programmers-text-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2007\/11\/05\/the-programmers-text-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Programmer&#8217;s Text Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software programmers love things that are free, such as free and open source software and freeware.  Developers also love their text editors.  Over my development experience I have used a ton of editors.  As a programmer I like an editor with code and syntax highlighting, code folding, tabs, and all the bells and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top text editors that I use, in no particular order.  All of the text editors listed below are installed in my home and development machines.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jedit.org\/\">jEdit<\/a> &#8211; The primer Java-based editor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/\">Vim<\/a> &#8211; Vi Improved.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scintilla.org\/\">Scintilla SciTE<\/a> &#8211; My Windows-based editor of choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\">Notepad++<\/a> &#8211; Free source code editor and Notepad replacement, based on Scintilla.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flos-freeware.ch\/notepad2.html\">Notepad 2<\/a> &#8211; Also based on Scintilla.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/Products\/komodo_edit\/\">Komodo Edit<\/a> &#8211; Free editor based on Komodo IDE.  Komodo Edit has a nice FireFox extension project support.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jext.org\/\">Jext<\/a> &#8211; Free source code editor written in Java.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.context.cx\/\">ConTEXT<\/a> &#8211; ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/textwrangler\/\">TextWrangler<\/a> &#8211;  My favorite general purpose text editor for Mac.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though they are not free, there are some great commercial text editors too.  Many Rails enthusiasts use <a href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\">TextMate<\/a> on OS X.  I also seen a lot of programmers use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultraedit.com\/\">UltraEdit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If I missed your favorite text editor, feel free to tell me about it in the comments.  I&#8217;m always open to try a new editor out.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/editor\" rel=\"tag\">editor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/programming\" rel=\"tag\"> programming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/programmers\" rel=\"tag\"> programmers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/jedit\" rel=\"tag\"> jedit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/jext\" rel=\"tag\"> jext<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/scintilla\" rel=\"tag\"> scintilla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vim\" rel=\"tag\"> vim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software programmers love things that are free, such as free and open source software and freeware. Developers also love their text editors. Over my development experience I have used a ton of editors. As a programmer I like an editor with code and syntax highlighting, code folding, tabs, and all the bells and whistles. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-5j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}