I’m testing Arachno now, its decent, works very good. i feel like I try them all, but they all have a problem. and they all three have a decent AutoBracket setting similar to what TextMate has. for rails I prefer Quanta now, but I use kdevelop a lot as well for rails. Under linux, it easy : kdevelop/quanta/kate are all great. i guess all that information needs to be compiled into a grid or something…. Well, looks like a huge list of comments is not the best for the purpose asked in the original message. Programmers and SysAdmins are running Mac laptops because they can remotely control entire server rooms via ssh and remote X11. Many OS X users bought a Mac because it’s the best Unix laptop available. So you can run it in vi compatible mode to bone up on the older vi keyboard commands or run the full ViM if you can. ViM is extremely handy to know if you ever work with Unix systems. *Nix: – generally included in most Linux distros but you can just download and compile on Solaris, etc. I believe the reaction I had, was “Hey, how did it just insert all that code all of a sudden!” and “Wow, look at the braces and snippet power!”. It’s what I was using until I found RoR and subsequently was introduced to TextMate via the Rails videos. ViM 7 (alpha) will be closer to TextMate with completion but not nearly as good. ViM is fully scriptable in your choice of languages (perl, python, ruby) and supports cscope, etc. There is an OS X Carbon version of ViM that is quite good. Although the console ViM is included in OS X, it’s missing some things. ViM is completely cross platform and is probably the easiest to get working the same on each platform. The current commercial alternative to Homesite seems to be TopStyle, also by Nick Bradbury (who has a talent for making good and uncluttered interfaces) – originally a CSS editor, but it evolved into a full-fledged web development editor. But Homesite got bought off and is now sold by Macromedia, and development has stagnated for quite a while. The default commercial HTML+scripting editor for web developers used to be Nick Bradbury’s Homesite, and I used to have it around for years and even do the odd programming job with it (until I found Eclipse, which is much more suited for Java development). Also see my review at which also offers some reasons why all other editors I found suck ) Doesn’t have the ability to load multiple files in one window though. I believe it now also comes with sourcecode. Wonderfully clean standard Windows interface, no ugly buttons etc.
offers two essential functions that are surprisingly rare with other editors: you can convert the character encoding and linebreaks of your files while editing them or when saving (which is essential for HTML and CGI script editing).
Like Edo above I also used Notepad2, which doesn’t offer much automation or other advanced features but is still the best really light text editor I found, and it’s free.
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