Ask HN: Open Source Text Editor

3 points by program101 17y ago ↗ HN

What does this community recommend for a good open source text editor?

Many to choose from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

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brianto2010 17y ago ↗

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

Vim

http://www.vim.org

What specifically will you use the text editor for?

program101 17y ago ↗

C, C++, Perl, HTML, CSS, Java Script - general purpose Thanks,

tutwabee 17y ago ↗

If you end up using vim, here's my vimrc file. It's got soft tabs enabled, a color distinction between soft tabs and hard tabs, and keyboard shortcuts for creating and removing comments for various comment styles.

http://dotfiles.org/~tutwabee/.vimrc

vorador 17y ago ↗

Notepad++ is available only on windows.

There's, of course, emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs

Jem 17y ago ↗

It is possible to run Notepad++ under Wine on Linux, but it's not the most stable.

juanpablo 17y ago ↗

KDE/Linux: Kate

GNOME: Geany

Windows: Notepad++

Mac: Buy Coda

paulbaumgart 17y ago ↗

How have I never stumbled across Geany? Much better than gedit, since all the useful features are built-in instead of poorly integrated 3rd-party extensions. Thanks!

chanux 17y ago ↗

Just to mention: Recently open sourced (not just open source it's free as in freedom), featured on HN, Redcar text mate like editor.

davidw 17y ago ↗

ed - ed is the standard text editor.

Barring that, emacs.