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 Wednesday, August 22, 2007

My Text Editor - What SciTE Says About Me

In a recent post: "What does your favorite text editor say about you", the author lists popular text editors and what they say about their users.  Here is the Editor or IDE I use with various programming languages:

Python:  SciTE
Perl:  SciTE
C#:  Visual Studio
Java:  Eclipse

I do all of my writing and a large portion of my programming in a plain old text editor.  Most of the code I write is in Python.  I love using a lightweight text editor instead of a big bloated IDE.  So... I pretty much live inside a text editor.

... and I love SciTE.  It rocks equally on Windows and GNU/Linux.  So what does this say about me?


SciTE:
"Your text editor is lightweight, full featured, extensible and cross platform. In addition, it can work as a stand-alone executable which requires no installation. Fits perfectly with all your other portable tools on your USB thumb drive. You also love how SciTE let’s you write Lua scripts to extend it’s functionality. You take your text editor choice very seriously. You like tinkering, and minimalistic, portable applications."

#    Comments [3] |
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:17:12 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Hey, another SciTE user! I was beginning to think I was the only one. I've tried a bunch of IDE's, but I have yet to find one that didn't feel like a bloated piece of junk. SciTE on the other hand, gives me everything I need.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:46:50 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Especially the standalone possibility is great. I was at a client with almost no software on the PC, now rights to install anything. So downloaded SciTE and edited any file I had to with any syntax highlighting I needed.
Also SciTE is small enough (and therefor quick enough to load) to be a replacement for standard Windows Notepad. Interesting comparison on the linked site...

(sorry if I posted twice, did not seem to work the first time?)
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:50:31 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
+1 for SciTE.
It's a wonderful editor. Especially the ability to export code to HTML and RTF for printing.
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