Windows Programmers' Editors

[chicken]

Usually I use BBEdit on my Mac to write code (PHP, Perl, HTML, whatnot). It's the most awesome editor ever.

However, today I am using a Win XP machine. I searched and searched for an editor that had some comparable features, first and foremost live editing of remote documents via SFTP. I couldn't get it to work in any of the editors recommended by other BBEdit users who sometimes have to use Win XP:

HomeSite
CrimsonEditor
TextPad

Finally I realized that my old standby from the last time I used Windows was the answer:

UltraEdit!

This is a really nice editor, and I highly recommend it to any Mac users who occasionally find themselves stuck in Windows land. It has many of the features I love about BBEdit: great syntax highlighting and code indentation, File Tree View, which is a thingy somewhat comparable to BBEdit's Document Drawer, live SFTP editing (although not quite as good as BBEdit's), HTML Validation, and many more nice features.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I believe samantha2074 is partial to UltraEdit.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Good to have confirmation. I'm curious what her favorite features might be. I feel I have only begun to (re-)discover them.

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

It is a good editor with lots of features, yes. I refused to buy a license, though, when I discovered it a handful of years ago, because the guy who wrote the software is a major-league God-squadder.

https://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=7

Now, not that there's anything wrong with that, I guess. I don't begrudge the guy his beliefs. But I also don't feel comfortable sending my money to someone who is so...evangelical.

It's a bummer, really.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

That's VERY depressing. UGH. Double hurrah for Barebones, then.

JEdit

[murraytodd.livejournal.com]

For the record, JEdit is pretty feature rich, and being a Java app in can exist in every OS in case you're an OS-hopper like I am. JEdit also has (a) the ability to recognize and convert all three "line feed" conventions (Mac's /r, Unix's /n and Win's /r/n) and (b) a pretty feature-rich RegEx-based find/replace. Even though it's a Java app, the performance is relatively snappy.

oh, and it's Free!

Re: JEdit

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Yes, JEdit is a good editor, too, and as you say, it is free (unlike Ultra Edit).

I just didn't pursue either option much at the time because I went back to my Mac pretty quickly. Mmmmm.

Re: JEdit

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

P.S., What made you decide to get an LJ account? :-)