From: CParticle <cparticle@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T01:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Enhanced Ruby editor

On May 3, 11:00 am, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <z...@cesmail.net> wrote:
> CParticle wrote:
> > All,
>
> > I know this subject has been mention a few time recently but I'll ask
> > again and hopefully I'll be specific enough that its new.
>
> > I've been using SCITE as my main code editor.  I'm not a developer
> > just a sysadmin so for the scripts that I use VBscript and Ruby it
> > fills my need and then some.
>
> > My needs listed below for the curious and to keep the alternate editor
> > suggestions to a minimum
> > * Lightweight (smaller is better)
> > * Cross platform (I use linux at home)
> > * Free
> > * Multiple tabs for many open files
> > * Handles a fair number of language for syntax highlighting
> > * Customizable (color schemes and added shortcuts for svn use)
>
> Almost Komodo editor -- free as in price but not as in speech,
> Linux/Windows for sure, and I think MacOS and Solaris, lots of tabs and
> language lexical highlighting and fairly customizable. The SVN (and CVS)
> interfaces require the paid version, Komodo, which also includes the
> other IDE goodies like debuggers.

Ed,
Your right this does sound very much like Komodo at least from what I
see on their site.  I'll have to make some time to try it out. You are
correct in saying that it exist for MacOS(both Intel and PowerPC) I
don't see a Solaris version though. One of the big drawbacks I see
though is that the editor by itself is a 27mb download while Scite is
under 1mb not that, that should be a real issue with todays download
speeds and drive sizes but something to consider. Like I said I will
have to look more closely at it as it does look very complete.

Thanks
C.Particle