Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on
> Windoze?

I've been trying out Programmers Notepad 2. It works well enough for C
and generic text, but I haven't tried out all the other options in it.

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>>> http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html
>> Vi? :-S
> 
> Yes, but with graphical menus. It's easy to use for even entry-level
> user (easier than notepad, since WinVI won't broke charsets etc) and
> still has most of Vim's power for advanced user (regexps etc).
> Seriously, it's lightweight, easy and good.
> 

I currently use Cream, which is also based on Vim but more accessible. 
It is available on Linux and Windows:
http://cream.sourceforge.net/home.html

I was using SciTE as well, but I ran into some problems so I switched... 
The thing is I don't remember what the problems were :-\

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> I currently use Cream, which is also based on Vim but more accessible. 
> It is available on Linux and Windows:
> http://cream.sourceforge.net/home.html

I thought Cream was just Vim with every single feature turned on and 
then some.

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> I thought Cream was just Vim with every single feature turned on and 
> then some.

...Vim has *features*??

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> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> I thought Cream was just Vim with every single feature turned on and 
>> then some.
> 
> ...Vim has *features*??
> 

So it would seem ;-)

Frankly I don't know enough about Vim to say more about features. Cream 
is just easier for me to use than gVim. It is not modal, for a start :-)

Andrew, what prejudices have you got exactly against Vim?

For a short period, I also tried Crimson Editor and ConText, but gave 
them up due to various issues of configuration:

http://www.context.cx/
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

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> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> I thought Cream was just Vim with every single feature turned on and 
>> then some.
> 
> ...Vim has *features*??
> 

I have used it for over a year and I keep finding features I didn't know 
about.

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I have used it for over a year and I keep finding features I didn't know
> about.

Same, but make it 3 years. After 2 months of "have-to-use" Vi'ing (there
 wasn't another text editor in certain systems) I stopped using Nano,
since Vi is some much more practical.

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Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> Andrew, what prejudices have you got exactly against Vim?

Oh, Vim is an OK text editor. It's just not that fantastic...

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> Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
> 
>> Andrew, what prejudices have you got exactly against Vim?
> 
> Oh, Vim is an OK text editor. It's just not that fantastic...
> 

Well yes, it's not an operating system ;-)

I don't know, what feature(s) do you miss?

I'm fairly certain I'm using Vim at a fraction of its capacity, so I 
don't feel any incentive to move, personally...

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Vincent Le Chevalier <gal### [at] libertyALLsurfSPAMfr> wrote:
> Cream
> is just easier for me to use than gVim. It is not modal, for a start :-)

which probably means you're using it just like notepad on steroids.

There's nothing faster nor easier for text editing than vi's modal nature.
Nothing can beat "." for repeating the last command nor is copying a whole,
possibly longish, block of text done with such ease as just typing "y}"

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