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Best free program text editor. - veeblefester - 01-27-2014 07:15 PM
Check out these reviews.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-text-editor.htm#Quick_Selection_Guide
RE: Best free program text editor. - John Colvin - 02-01-2014 10:59 PM
EditPlus is another good text editor with syntax highlighting for several languages
(C++., HTML, Java, ...) and can even be configured for syntax highlighting of
other languages (such as HPPL) as well. It allows the integration of compilers
and other tools right into the application. http://editplus.soft32.com
RE: Best free program text editor. - davetheguru - 02-06-2014 01:31 AM
look at Codelite (http://www.codelite.org). It is free and probably has more bells and whistles than many especially for use with the Prime, etc. It is a professional grade editor.
It is multi-platform, supports many plug-ins, and can interface with source control programs (subversion, git, etc), debuggers (probably not HP's however).
I wouldn't be surprised if one (especially one of you code wizes) could add in highlighter code for PPL with little effort, if one of the built in ones doesn't fit.
That's my recommendation.
RE: Best free program text editor. - Dominik Holenstein - 02-06-2014 06:30 AM
davetheguru,
Greate recommendation!
CodeLite is focued on C++ but you are ritght that it should be possible to add code highlighting for PPL.
Dominik
RE: Best free program text editor. - davetheguru - 02-07-2014 02:09 AM
Thanks.
I use Codelite for C, C++, bash scripts, etc and it works great. I like how I can turn on it showing ALL the characters (spaces, tab, LF, CR, etc) so I can see what is REALLY there.
It will also show highlighting as you move over brackets, parenthesis, etc to show the matching one (you can even have it draw a vertical line between them).
For C, it will allow you to "fold" at the brackets to hide the lower level lines and see much more in the window.
and on and on...
Oh, today I did find a limitation: the line numbers shown on the left side wrapped around from 99999 to 00000 and started over (wasn't a source file but a text log file that was over 160000 lines long). It had me scratching my head a little bit as I was trying to match grep'd line numbers to the file.
Does any one plan on writing PPL programs over 99999 lines long? (if so, I'm worried)