I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know, 
Notepad sucks.

Then I started using SciTE to write everything. It's available on 
Windoze and Linux, and works quite nicely. Only real program is that 
it's a nightmare to configure it properly. You have to edit a 400-line 
configuration file, and most of the options are quite poorly documented.

Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on Windoze?

NB. "Emacs" is an operating system, not a text editor. :-P

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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on Windoze?

vim. :)

oh, if you thought SciTe had too many textual configurations... :P

you could try one of the Windows specifics:  notepad++, textpad etc...

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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

Non-responsive answer: Kate  (KDE text editor), a linux app, works wonderfully--
if your file ends in .pov it even does the color coding for you in the way that
WinPov does!

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote

> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on
Windoze?

UltraEdit

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know,
> Notepad sucks.

Notepad is not a text editor. It's a waste of disk space.

UltraEdit (Not free)
Notepad++ (Free)

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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know,
> Notepad sucks.

It can suck? I tought it's *totally* useless :O

> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on
> Windoze?

http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html

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I use gVim on Windows.

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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:477908f6$1@news.povray.org...
>> I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know,
>> Notepad sucks.
> 
> Notepad is not a text editor. It's a waste of disk space.

I dunno, I used it a lot before running into issues with linux-style 
cr/lfs that put webpages and such onto one line.

Now I use Wordpad for most things, and Notepad2 when I want line numbers 
and colour-coded syntax.

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gregjohn wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
> Non-responsive answer: Kate  (KDE text editor), a linux app, works wonderfully--
> if your file ends in .pov it even does the color coding for you in the way that
> WinPov does!

It's what I tend to use on Linux, and it seems to work moderately well. 
(Certainly far better than that Notepad joke.) It even seems to [badly] 
colour code Haskell source code, which is interesting.

I bet you can't run that on Windoze though...

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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> I used to use Notepad to write everything. As some of you might know,
>> Notepad sucks.
> 
> It can suck? I tought it's *totally* useless :O

"The only time Micro$oft will make something that doesn't suck, they'll 
be making vacuum cleaners."

(BTW, I keep waiting for Apple to make a vacuum cleaner. They could call 
it "iSuck"...)

>> Does anybody have a better suggestion for text editors that work on
>> Windoze?
> 
> http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html

Vi? :-S

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