From: Brock Weaver <brockweaver@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T04:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Good cross-platform IDE / multiple document text editor for ruby / rails?

Thank you everybody for your responses.  I'm sure I'll waste a few
days trying all the different editors out. :)

On 8/24/05, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:55 pm, Rob . wrote:
> ---<good stuff snipped>---
> 
> I wasn't going to mention nedit (my favorite editor for five years now, since
> I moved from Windows), because I didn't realize it was cross platform:
> 
> from http://www.nedit.org/:
> 
> "NEdit was originally developed on a Unix system and is available on all major
> Unix and Linux systems. But NEdit can also run on other platforms, if there
> is a working X Window environment available. For instance, NEdit runs on
> MacOS X, OS/2 and MS Windows. The platforms and toolkit pages contain more
> details."
> 
> I'd almost guarantee it does Ruby syntax highlighting, but if it doesn't, it
> has a macro language to let you add that and almost any other feature that
> you might think of.  (But, not to mislead anyone, it does have a lot of
> features built in.  It always seems fast (seems likely since it's written in
> C) and I edit 1.5 MB files frequently every day.
> 
> (It does have a few quirks, some of them related to the Motif/Lesstif GUI it
> uses.)
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 
> 


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Brock Weaver
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